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Aug 4, 2014 · From poems written in the trenches to elegies for the dead, these poems, organized chronologically, commemorate World War I. Roughly 10 million soldiers lost their lives in World War I, along with seven million civilians. The horror of the war and its aftermath altered the world for decades, and poets responded to the brutalities and losses in ...
- The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A...
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At...
- The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
During the Great War, poetry had a currency that it lacks in the early twenty-first century. Newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, anthologies, and individual collections featured poems by combatants and non-combatants, by men and by women, at “home” or near the front lines.
Nov 4, 2021 · The First World War inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle were evoked perhaps more vividly than ever before. The First World War poets – many of whom lost their lives – became a collective voice, illuminating not only the war’s tragedies and their irreparable effects, but the hopes and ...
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- Edmund Blunden. Edmund Blunden was born in London, brought up in Kent and educated at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, where he became senior classical scholar.
- Robert Graves. Robert Graves was the son of a British father and a German mother. He won a classical scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, in 1914, but instead obtained a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
- Ivor Gurney. Ivor Gurney was born in Gloucester and educated at the King's School and then at the Royal College of Music. He showed great talent as a composer, despite being troubled by mental illness.
- David Jones. At the start of the First World War David Jones enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a private. He spent most of his first year training before his battalion crossed over to France in December 1915.
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war.
Nov 11, 2019 · The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes...
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The First World War provides one of the seminal moments of the twentieth-century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems reflecting Wordsworth's 'spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'.
