The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Revised Edition

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• ISBN13: 9780141180090
• ISBN10: 0141180099
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	8	(4)
Note To The Second Edition	12	(1)
Note on the 1996 Edition	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(63)
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)	78	(3)
Channel Firing	78	(1)
Drummer Hodge	79	(2)
Rupert Brooke (1887--1915)	81	(2)
From 1914
IV. The Dead	81	(1)
V. The Soldier	81	(2)
Julian Grenfell (1888--1915)	83	(2)
Into Battle	83	(2)
John McCrae (1872--1918)	85	(1)
In Flanders Fields	85	(1)
Alan Seeger (1888--1916)	86	(1)
Rendezvous	86	(1)
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895--1915)	87	(4)
`All the hills and vales along'	87	(1)
Two Sonnets	88	(1)
`When you see millions of the mouthless dead'	89	(2)
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)	91	(11)
A Private	91	(1)
Man and Dog	91	(2)
The Owl	93	(1)
In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)	93	(1)
Fifty Faggots	93	(1)
This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong	94	(1)
Rain	95	(1)
Roads	96	(2)
February Afternoon	98	(1)
The Cherry Trees	98	(1)
As the Team's Head-Brass	99	(1)
Gone, Gone Again	100	(2)
Edmund Blunden (1896--1974)	102	(13)
Two Voices	102	(1)
Preparations for Victory	102	(1)
Come On, My Lucky Lads	103	(1)
The Zonnebeke Road	104	(2)
Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July, 1917	106	(1)
Third Ypres	106	(4)
Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm	110	(1)
La Quinque Rue	111	(1)
The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards	111	(1)
1916 seen from 1921	112	(1)
Report on Experience	113	(1)
The Midnight Skaters	114	(1)
Ivor Gurney (1890--1937)	115	(5)
To His Love	115	(1)
The Silent One	116	(1)
The Bohemians	116	(1)
Butchers and Tombs	117	(1)
War Books	117	(1)
Strange Hells	118	(1)
It is near Toussaints	119	(1)
Robert Graves (1895--1985)	120	(3)
To Robert Nichols	120	(1)
Recalling War	121	(2)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)	123	(12)
A Working Party	123	(1)
`The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still'	124	(3)
The Death-Bed	127	(1)
Prelude: The Troops	128	(1)
Counter-Attack	129	(2)
Base Details	131	(1)
Lamentations	131	(1)
Does it Matter?	131	(1)
Glory of Women	132	(1)
Repression of War Experience	133	(2)
Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)	135	(3)
Epitaphs of the War (1914--18)
A Servant	135	(1)
A Son	135	(1)
The Coward	135	(1)
Pelicans in the Wilderness (A Grave near Halfa)	135	(1)
The Refined Man	135	(1)
Common Form	136	(1)
A Drifter off Tarentum	136	(1)
Gethsemane (1914--18)	136	(2)
Edgell Rickword (1898-- )	138	(2)
The Soldier Addresses his Body	138	(1)
Winter Warfare	139	(1)
E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)	140	(1)
`my sweet old etcetera'	140	(1)
Richard Aldington (1892--1962)	141	(4)
Field Manoeuvres
Outpost Duty	141	(1)
In the Trenches	142	(1)
Trench Idyll	143	(1)
Resentment	144	(1)
Ford Madox Ford (1873--1939)	145	(2)
From `Antwerp'	145	(1)
That Exploit of Yours	146	(1)
F. S. Flint (1885--1960)	147	(2)
Lament	147	(2)
Alice Meynell (1847--1922)	149	(2)
Summer in England, 1914	149	(2)
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893--1973)	151	(2)
Lamplight	151	(2)
Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)	153	(2)
The Cenotaph	153	(2)
Margaret Postgate Cole (1893--1980)	155	(2)
The Veteran	155	(1)
Afterwards	155	(2)
Mina Loy (1882--1966)	157	(2)
Der Blinde Junge	157	(2)
T. E. Hulme (1883--1917)	159	(1)
Trenches: St Eloi	159	(1)
Herbert Read (1893--1968)	160	(17)
The Happy Warrior	160	(1)
The End of a War
Argument	160	(2)
Meditation of a Dying German Officer	162	(5)
Dialogue between the Body and the Soul of the Murdered Girl	167	(4)
Meditation of the Waking English Officer	171	(5)
A Short Poem for Armstice Day	176	(1)
David Jones (1895--1974)	177	(8)
From In Parenthesis, Part 7	177	(8)
Harold Munro (1879--1932)	185	(2)
From `Youth in Arms'	185	(2)
IV. Carrion	185	(2)
John Peale Bishop (1892--1944)	187	(2)
In the Dordogne	187	(2)
Frederic Manning (1887--1935)	189	(1)
Grotesque	189	(1)
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)	190	(23)
Exposure	190	(1)
The Dead-Beat	191	(1)
Dulce Et Decorum Est	192	(1)
Anthem for Doomed Youth	193	(1)
Disabled	194	(1)
Miners	195	(2)
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo	197	(1)
The Show	198	(1)
Insensibility	199	(2)
A Terre	201	(2)
From `Wild with All Regrets'	203	(1)
The Send-Off	204	(1)
Mental Cases	205	(1)
Futility	206	(1)
Strange Meeting	206	(2)
The Sentry	208	(1)
Smile, Smile, Smile	209	(1)
Spring Offensive	210	(3)
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)	213	(1)
Song of Man Who Has Come Through	213	(1)
Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)	214	(20)
On Receiving News of the War	214	(1)
From Moses	215	(2)
Marching (As Seen from the Left File)	217	(1)
August 1914	217	(1)
Break of Day in the Trenches	218	(1)
`A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'	219	(1)
Louse Hunting	219	(1)
Returning, We Hear the Larks	220	(1)
Dead Man's Dump	221	(2)
Daughters of War	223	(2)
From The Amulet	225	(1)
The Tower of Skulls	226	(1)
From The Unicorn	227	(4)
Soldier: Twentieth Century	231	(1)
Girl to Soldier on Leave	231	(1)
The Burning of the Temple	232	(1)
The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes	233	(1)
Archibald Macleish (1892--1982)	234	(1)
The Silent Slain	234	(1)
Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)	235	(1)
Grass	235	(1)
Edna ST Vincent Millay (1892--1950)	236	(1)
Conscientious Objector	236	(1)
Georg Heym (1887--1912)	237	(3)
War	237	(1)
`Why do you visit me, white moths, so often?'	238	(2)
Georg Trakl (1886--1914)	240	(4)
Trumpets	240	(1)
Night	240	(1)
Dejection	241	(1)
In the East	242	(1)
Lament	242	(1)
Grodek	243	(1)
Alfred Lichtenstein (1889--1941)	244	(1)
Leaving for the Front	244	(1)
Ernst Stadler (1883--1914)	245	(2)
Decampment	245	(2)
Wilhelm Klemm (1881--1968)	247	(3)
Clearing-Station	247	(1)
Clearing Station	248	(2)
August Stramm (1864--1915)	250	(1)
Guard-Duty	250	(1)
Battlefield	250	(1)
Albert Ehrenstein (1886--1950)	251	(1)
The Poet and War	251	(1)
Anton Schnack (1892--1973)	252	(2)
Nocturnal Landscape	252	(2)
Yvan Goll (1891--1950)	254	(2)
From Requiem for the Dead of Europe
Recitative (I)	254	(1)
Recitative (VIII)	255	(1)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880--1918)	256	(3)
Shadow	256	(1)
The Sighs of the Gunner from Dakar	257	(2)
Charles Vildrac (1882--1971)	259	(2)
Relief	259	(2)
Bejain Peret (1899--1959)	261	(1)
Little Song of the Maimed	261	(1)
Rene Arcos (1881--1959)	262	(1)
The Dead	262	(1)
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888--1970)	263	(7)
Agony	263	(1)
Vigil	263	(1)
Brothers	264	(1)
I am a creature	265	(1)
Rivers	265	(2)
San Martino del Carso	267	(1)
Italy	268	(1)
No More Crying Out	269	(1)
Eugenio Montale (1896--1981)	270	(3)
Thrust and Riposte	270	(3)
Aleksandr Blok (1880--1921)	273	(1)
The Kite	273	(1)
Anna Akhmatova (1889--1967)	274	(2)
July 1914	274	(2)
Osip Mandelstam (1891--1938)	276	(1)
Petropolis	276	(1)
URI ZVI Greenberg (1895--1981)	277	(2)
Naming Souls	277	(2)
Marina Tsvetayeva (1892--1941)	279	(1)
`A white low sun'	279	(1)
Postscript	280	(1)
Wang Chien (c. AD 830)	281	(2)
Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back from the War	281	(2)
Bibliography	283	(6)
Index of Poets and Translators	289	(4)
Index of First Lines	293	(6)
Index of Titles	299