The poetry of the First World War - Pan Macmillan.
You can continue exploring the world of war poetry with our pick of Edward Thomas’s best poems, some of which were written while he was fighting in the First World War. Alternatively, switch war for love with this pick of the best very short love poems in English. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University.
Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by.
English literature - English literature - The literature of World War I and the interwar period: The impact of World War I upon the Anglo-American Modernists has been noted. In addition the war brought a variety of responses from the more-traditionalist writers, predominantly poets, who saw action. Rupert Brooke caught the idealism of the opening months of the war (and died in service.
A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about their experiences, or a non-combatant who writes poems about war. While the term is applied especially to those who served during World War I, the term can be applied to a poet of any nationality writing about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC, and the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon, which.
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics). This anthology contained a superb amount of poets which was great to help with my dissertation as well as the introduction which was very well written with some great insight into certain poets during the First World War.
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