First World War Poems from the Front

O'Prey Paul

ISBN 10: 1904897886 / ISBN 13: 9781904897880

Editore: Imperial War Museum Sep 2014, 2014

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Neuware - From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. Most anthologies of First World War poetry include quite uneven poems by many different poets, seeking to represent the wide range of war poetry that was written during the conflict. It can be hard to find your way through single poems by so many different voices. Instead, this anthology will be distinctive in focusing only on the most iconic figures of the war to explore their work in more depth. They include Rupert Brooke, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Edward Thomas will be particularly well represented, but so will three poets whose reputation is still growing: Ivor Gurney, Edmund Blunden and David Jones. It will also include powerful poems by three nurses who served in France: Vera Brittain, Mary Borden and May Cannan. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.

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• Titolo: First World War Poems from the Front
• Editore: Imperial War Museum Sep 2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1904897886
• ISBN 13: 9781904897880
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 195 L x 130 A x 23 P (millimetri) 195 millimetri di larghezza per 130 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 317 grammi

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Riassunto

From “How to Die,” by Siegfried Sassoon

Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
To watch the glory that returns;
He lifts his fingers toward the skies
Where holy brightness breaks in flame;
Radiance reflected in his eyes,
And on his lips a whispered name.

The poems in this anthology—all written by poets who served on the front line—draw readers into the horrors of life in the trenches, documenting events as they unfolded in excruciating detail and creating a body of work so vivid that it continues to haunt us one hundred years later.

With First World War Poems from the Front, Paul O’Prey offers an in-depth exploration of the Great War poets, including powerful poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Julian Grenfell, as well as two World War I nurses: Vera Brittain and Mary Borden. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction and short biographical profiles that set them in context for readers new to the works.

Informazioni sugli autori

Paul O’Prey is vice-chancellor and professor of modern literature at the University of Roehampton, London. He is president of the War Poets Association and the author or editor of several books, including Robert Graves: Collected Writings on Poetry.

Professor Paul O'Prey is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Roehampton in London, where he is also Professor of Modern Literature. He is a former president of the War Poets Association, a member of the council of the IWM Friends, and author of a number of books including 'Robert Graves' Selected Poems' (Penguin, 1986), completed after a long period working with the poet.