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The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember. This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection.
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war poetry,
By Poeticpiers "ivor" (Dipton co durham) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
an excellent selection of first world war poetry rangin fromm the wryly humourous to heart rending descriptions of living hell
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Very good for what it attempts,
By S. J. Will - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
I disagree with the previous reviewer, who criticizes the book for not being a comprehensive collection of WWI-era poetry. This is unfair, since that is not what the book sets out to be: a concise introduction to the subject. Seen this way, the book is entirely successful, as it presents a wide variety of writers (45 if you count "Anonymous") in an easily portable & inexpensive volume. To demonstrate their intention to merely introduce readers to subject, the editors include both the Oxford and Penguin war poetry anthologies in their list of "further reading." Another plus is that by presenting the works in alphabetical order by author, it is really easy to refer to a particular work; if only all the poetry collections used this thoughtful approach! A final observation: I also have the Penguin anthology of WWI poetry, and the quality of the paper used & even the printing itself is noticeably inferior to that in the Wordsworth book: thank you Wordsworth for getting the details right!
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By Candace E. Barnes - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry (Wordsworth Poetry Library) (Paperback)
This book, because of its size, offers a very limited view of the poetry of WWI. Don't think I would recommend it, although the selection does feature some of the best-known (if not best-written) poetry of WWI.
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