World War One British Poets Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others

by Ward, Candace

• ISBN13: 9780486295688
• ISBN10: 0486295680
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-04-22
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Rich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Thomas Hardy's "In Time of the Breaking of Nations," many more by Kipling, de la Mare, Bridges, others. Publisher's Note.

Table of Contents

Rupert Brooke
I. Peace
II. Safety
III. The Dead
IV. The Dead
V. The Soldier
  The Treasure
Charles Hamilton Sorley
  To Germany
  When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead'
  Route March ('All the Hills and Vales Along')
Edward Thomas
  This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
  Adlestrop
  Tears
  The Owl
  A Private
  As the Team's Head Brass
John McCrae
  In Flanders Fields
Isaac Rosenberg
  Break of Day in the Trenches
  Louse Hunting
  "Returning, We Hear the Larks"
  Dead Man's Dump
Wilfred Owen
  Arms and the Boy
  Greater Love
  Insensibility
  Dulce et Decorum Est
  Mental Cases
  Futility
  Disabled
  Anthem for Doomed Youth
  Strange Meeting
  Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
Ivor Gurney
  The Silent One
  To His Love
  The Target
Siegfried Sassoon
  In the Pink'
  A Working Party
  Blighters'
  They'
  The One-Legged Man
  Haunted
  The Troops
  The General
  Repression of War Experience
  Trench Duty
  Picture-Show
Robert Graves
  To Lucasta on Going to the War - for the Fouth Time
  Goliath and David
  The Last Post
  When I'm Killed
  Letter to S. S. From Mametz Wood
  A Dead Boche
  The Next war
  Escape
  The Bough of Nonsense
  Not Dead
  The Assault Heroic
Alice Meynell
  "Summer in England, 1914"
Thomas Hardy
  Channel Firing
  Song of the Soldiers (Men Who March Away)
  Belgium's Destitute
  "Before Marching, and After "
  In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
  The Pity of It
  Then and Now
  And There Was a Great Calm'
Robert Bridges
  To the United States of America
  Trafalgar Square
A. E. Housman
  Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
Rudyard Kipling
  The Mine-Sweepers
  For All We Have and Are'
  The Choice
Walter de la Mare
  The Fool Rings His Bells
  How Sleep the Brave'
May Wedderburn Cannan
  Rouen