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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)

by Jon Silkin (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (28 Nov 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141180099
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141180090
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 90,962 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Misfiring the Canon, 6 Aug 2002
It's regrettable that this is probably the best selling World War One poetry anthology, because it's a mess. Silkin's fabled introduction is one of the most garbled and incoherant introductions to the war poets ever written, and the poetry itself is notoriously erratic in it's choice. Yes, the old favourites are there - Sassoon, Owen, Brooke et al. throng the ranks, but Silkin glosses over the huge amount of women's poetry (readdressed, thankfully, in Catherine Reilly's excellent "Scars Upon My Heart"), and misses out on many of the poems written post war about the war experience. As usual, popularist voices of the war like the thousands who published in magazines like Punch and The Strand are dismissed, and although voices such as oft neglected Ivor Gurney are given space, it is no surprise that Wilfred Owen yet again dominates the text with eighteen poems. Silkin's apparent choice to travel further afield for war poets from all sides of the conflict is admirable but leads again to an unfocussed feel to the anthology. Thank goodness Penguin are compiling a newer version...

"Out of the heart's sickness the spirit wrote
For delight, or to escape hunger, or of war's worst anger,
When the guns died to silence and men would gather sense
Somehow together, and find this was life indeed"

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5.0 out of 5 stars well done, 20 Feb 2001
I would like to say well done to the publishers of this book it helped me with my assignement for world war one and got me a good grade. if you are doing any sort of assignement on world war one suggest you be the book.
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