Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This fine collection brings together a comprehensive selection, and in his informative introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The work of Sassoon, Owen, Blunden and Rosenberg is well represented, but also included are less familiar war poets, such as Hardy and Lawrence, war poems written by women poets and translations of verse from Germany, France, Italy and Russia. The shattering, ironic realism, tenderness and regret reflected in these poems encompass the waste and violence war.

Language: English

Pages: 291

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: January 01, 1979

ISBN: 0140183671

ISBN 13: 9780140183672

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

4.3/5 ( ratings)

This fine collection brings together a comprehensive selection, and in his informative introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The work of Sassoon, Owen, Blunden and Rosenberg is well represented, but also included are less familiar war poets, such as Hardy and Lawrence, war poems written by women poets and translations of verse from Germany, France, Italy and Russia. The shattering, ironic realism, tenderness and regret reflected in these poems encompass the waste and violence war.

Language: English

Pages: 291

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Release: January 01, 1979

ISBN: 0140183671

ISBN 13: 9780140183672

More books from E.E. Cummings

100 Selected Poems

4.3/5 ( ratings)

E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition)

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Classic Love Poems

3.9/5 ( ratings)

95 Poems

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?