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The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets (Hardcover)

by Robert Giddings (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (May 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747501459
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747501459
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 944,320 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A re-assessment of the work of the poets of World War I, putting their individual stories and the poems they created into the historical context of their time. The book is illustrated with facsimiles, paintings and photographs, many of which have not appeared before in print.


Excerpted from The War Poets: the Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by Robert Giddings. Copyright © 1998. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Breakfast
We ate our breakfast lying on our backs
Because the shells were screeching overhead.
I bet a rasher to a loaf of bread
That Hull United would beat Halifax
When Jimmy Stainthorpe played full-back instead
Of Billy Bradford. Ginger raised his head
And cursed, and took the bet, and dropt back dead.
We ate our breakfast lying on our backs
Because the shells were screeching overhead.
Wilfred Wilson Gibson

Mad
Neck-deep in mud,
He mowed and raved-
He who had braved
The field of blood –
And as a lad
Just out of school
Yelled April Fool!
And laughed like mad.
Wilfred Wilson Gibson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Readable, informative, explanatory and moving, 18 Jan 2002
This review is from: The War Poets: The Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets (Paperback)
This book is a brilliant companion to study of First World War poetry, for example for the A level syllabus, but also excellent for anyone interested in the lives of first world war poets and their response to the Great War. It contains much historical and autobiographical detail, which sets a lot of the poetry in context, and is arranged in years of the war, which means you can see the progression in style and also the response of individual poets and the movement as a whole to changing world events. It is also very nicely illustrated with lots of wartime posters, pictures of the poets, regimental pictures and other archive photos which help to put you in the right frame of mind to really appreciate the poetry itself. It is very readable and I think would also be nice just to have on a shelf to flick through occasionally.
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not much use beyond GCSE., 5 Mar 2002
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This review is from: The War Poets: The Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets (Paperback)
Unfortunately, this book is not as useful as I expected. It is very interesting and would make a brilliant introduction for the general reader, or perhaps for GSCE level students. It gives good background information on the poets and the war in general, and the inclusion of war art and propaganda helps the reader to place the poetry in the context of wider artistic developments during the war. However, there is little ananlysis of individual poems and so this book would not be much use to anybody writing an essay on the topic. Overall, this book is a colourful, easy read but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants detailed discussion of the poems themselves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book, 1 Jun 2009
By L. Collins "lauzie57" (London England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The War Poets: The Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets (Paperback)
You don't have to be doing GSCEs or A Levels to appreciate this book. For anyone who has a love of First World War poetry it's an absolute must on the bookshelf. The illustrations add to the moving poetic testaments of what those guys went through all those years ago. Irritatingly, some light-fingered visitor nicked my copy so I had to buy another - I wouldn't be without it. Read it, and literally, weep.
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