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Dec 9, 2020 · World War, 1914-1918 Publisher London : Free Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 754.4M
Jun 13, 2020 · World War I created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity, it broke the century of relative peace we associate with the Victorian era, and unleashed the demons of the 20th century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death. Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-486) and index. Access-restricted-item.
Sep 20, 2021 · This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory.
Jul 24, 2021 · Minds at war : essential poetry of the First World War in context. by. Roberts, David. Publication date. 1996. Topics. World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry, War poetry, English, Anthologie, Englisch, Lyrik, Weltkrieg 1914-1918. Publisher. Burgess Hill : Saxon Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive
- Trench Warfare
- Germany Crumbles
- Edgell Rickword
- Wilfred Owen (1893-19____18)__
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Trench Songs
- Select Women Writers
- Irony
The Great War saw the advent of a new type of warfare known as Trench Warfare, that would result in the stagnation of the conflict and drag it out as both the Allies and Central powers fought from heavily fortified positions that neither side could seem to overcome, leading to unprecedented slaughter with little, and often nothing, being gained. Th...
Germany lost the war due to a growing weariness of the conflict within its own population and the defeat of its key allies, as well as the arrival of the fresh American reinforcements on the western front ensuring that the allied forces would be able to carry on the fight for longer than Germany could afford. The sailors of the German Navy did not ...
“In sodden trenches I have heard men speak, Though numb and wretched, wise and witty things; And loved them for the stubbornness that clings Longest to laughter when Death’s pulleys creak;” –Edgell Rickword (Trench Poets,1921) 1. Officer in the British Army 2. Developed a severe infection in his left eye that resulted in its removal 3. Released his...
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”– Wilfred Owen, 1916 1. British Soldier 2. Known for realistic style 3. Wrote on horrors of trench & gas warfare 4. Endured many war injuries, resulting in “shell-shock” 5. Intended to publish book of poetry, but killed in action on November 4, 1918 6. Most of his poetry published ...
“I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting; that is if I am lucky enough to come through it alright” –Isaac Rosenberg, 1916 1. British Soldier 2. Heavily influenced by Keats and other Romantics 3. Enlisted in war because he was out of work poet 4. Killed in action, 1918 5. All works published af...
Trench songs were poems written by soldiers to alleviate the stress and fear that they encountered from the war. With these songs, soldiers were able to create bonds with one another. The soldiers sang these songs at their base camps, while marching, and during the front lines. These short songs and poems included rhyme which created a musical soun...
Vera Brittain (1893-1970) During the war, Vera Brittain left Oxford to become a VAD nurse for four years. She married quartermaster-sergeant Roland Leighton, whose writing also played a major role in British literature during the war. They wrote letters and poems to each other while he was away before his untimely death in the war. 1. Verses of a V...
One of the prominent trends of poetry and other kinds of literature during the first world war was a persistent propensity for irony. At the onset, the war was greeted with a sort of ironic enthusiasm, with soldier-poets such as Julian Grenfell professing that “I adore war. It is like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic. I have neve...
A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914–1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to represent a global conflict, dominated by modern technology, involving millions of combatants and countless civilians.
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Jun 6, 2011 · The First World War jolted society into the reality of war, significantly altering the face of literature because it changed the way people thought about life. The realities of an all-encompassing war revealed the frivolous nature of sheer entertainment and opened questions about life and death, purpose and direction, justice, patriotism, love ...
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