War and Peace A Collection of Classic Poetry and Prose

by Agnew, Kate; Morpurgo, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781840465709
• ISBN10: 1840465700
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Wizard Books

Summary

A compelling anthology for younger readers that shows the power and pity of war, set against the tranquility of peace.

Author Biography

Kate Agnew has chaired the Children's Booksellers Association and has served as a judge for the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Award. She was a contributor to the Cambridge Guide to Children's Books and co-wrote Children at War with Geoff Fox. In 1999 she won a special British Book Award for her contribution to the National Year of Reading.

Michael Morpurgo was awarded an MBE in 1999 for service to youth. His books have won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Book Prize, the Children's Book Award and the Cercle D'Or Priz Sorciere (France). He is also the author of the phenomally successful War Horse which was adapted into an multi-award-winning West End show. It has since transferred to Broadway.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Friends and Enemies	p. 3
A Poison Tree	p. 5
The Arrow and the Song	p. 6
The Peace-Offering	p. 7
Strange Meeting	p. 8
This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong	p. 10
Shiloh	p. 11
The Aeneid, Book II Virgil, translated	p. 12
Once There Came a Man	p. 15
The Soldier	p. 16
Pride and Prejudice	p. 17
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	p. 19
Vanity Fair	p. 21
Othello, Act 1 Scene 3	p. 26
A Farewell to Arms	p. 28
Leaders and Leadership	p. 29
King Henry V, Act 3 Scene 1	p. 31
Agincourt	p. 33
Paradise Lost, Book I	p. 38
On the Lord General Fairfax	p. 39
An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland	p. 40
Tamburlaine, Act 3 Scene 2	p. 44
Coriolanus, Act 2 Scene 2	p. 45
Pharsalia	p. 47
A Report	p. 49
Essays	p. 52
The True Knight	p. 55
Wartime	p. 57
Grotesque	p. 59
The Battle of Blenheim	p. 60
The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses	p. 63
The Aeneid, Book IX Virgil, translated	p. 64
The Lesson of the War	p. 65
Retort on the Foregoing	p. 68
The Going of the Battery, Wives' Lament	p. 69
The Send-Off	p. 71
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	p. 72
The Bivouac in the Snow	p. 74
Bivouac on a Mountain Side	p. 76
Exposure	p. 77
Break of Day in the Trenches	p. 79
The Immortals	p. 80
Desertion	p. 81
Smile, Smile, Smile	p. 82
Channel Firing	p. 83
On Receiving News of the War	p. 85
Death or Glory?	p. 87
Stanzas	p. 89
The Lay of the Last Minstrel	p. 90
Volunteer's Song, Written in 1803	p. 91
The Soldier	p. 93
Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth	p. 94
Battle Hymn of the American Republic	p. 95
Scots Wha Hae	p. 96
Ye Mariners of England	p. 97
The Destruction of Sennacherib	p. 99
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix	p. 100
Into Battle	p. 103
All the Hills and Vales Along	p. 105
The Last Buccanier	p. 107
The Private of the Buffs	p. 109
Men Who March Away	p. 111
All Is Vanity Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea	p. 113
The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred	p. 114
Dulce et Decorum Est	p. 116
Remembrance	p. 117
The Bible, Samuel 2	p. 119
The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna	p. 120
Drummer Hodge	p. 122
A Private	p. 123
The Cenotaph	p. 124
Concord Hymn	p. 126
Dedicatory Address at Gettysburg Cemetery	p. 127
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead	p. 128
Anthem for Doomed Youth	p. 129
In Flanders Fields	p. 130
In Memoriam	p. 131
Futility	p. 132
The Sun Used to Shine	p. 133
In Times of Wars and Tumults	p. 135
It Feels a Shame to Be Alive	p. 136
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners	p. 137
February Afternoon	p. 139
Peace	p. 141
In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'	p. 143
Peace	p. 144
Peace	p. 145
Walking	p. 147
The Garden	p. 148
My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is	p. 151
Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel	p. 153
Centuries of Meditations	p. 154
The Earthly Paradise	p. 156
Paradise Lost, Book IV	p. 158
Peace	p. 159
Christmas: 1924	p. 160
In Memoriam Alfred	p. 161
Index of First Lines	p. 163
Index of Authors	p. 166
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