Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Poems about War
Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Moyer Bell Limited
ISBN: 9781559210300
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The poems in this collection establish Robert Graves' reputation as a war poet. (He is one of sixteen poets of World War I commemorated on the stone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.) Yet Graves omitted all of them from his own collections after 1927 in an effort to put the war behind him. William Graves, his son, has edited this completely new volume, including many of the marginal notes from Robert;s library copies. Appendices include bibliographic detail, the publication record, and variant forms of the poems.
Publisher: Moyer Bell Limited
ISBN: 9781559210300
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The poems in this collection establish Robert Graves' reputation as a war poet. (He is one of sixteen poets of World War I commemorated on the stone in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.) Yet Graves omitted all of them from his own collections after 1927 in an effort to put the war behind him. William Graves, his son, has edited this completely new volume, including many of the marginal notes from Robert;s library copies. Appendices include bibliographic detail, the publication record, and variant forms of the poems.
War Poems And Others
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742749674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The complete edition of Wilfred Owen's, War Poems and Others. " What passing-bells for those who die as castle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'' This edition contains all Wilfred Owen's war poetry with an Introduction and Notes on Owen as a poet by Dominic Hibberd. It also includes an Historical Introduction & Study Guide written for Australian students by William Hovey, formerly History Co-ordinator at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield NSW. Mr Hovey provides an Historical Introduction to the western front and relates Owen's poetry to the Australian troops in the trenches and to the factors that motivated them to enlist. The Study Guide has a full list of books and other resources relevant to the study of the Australian experience of World War One and a selection of assignments and activities for student use.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742749674
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The complete edition of Wilfred Owen's, War Poems and Others. " What passing-bells for those who die as castle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'' This edition contains all Wilfred Owen's war poetry with an Introduction and Notes on Owen as a poet by Dominic Hibberd. It also includes an Historical Introduction & Study Guide written for Australian students by William Hovey, formerly History Co-ordinator at Santa Sabina College, Strathfield NSW. Mr Hovey provides an Historical Introduction to the western front and relates Owen's poetry to the Australian troops in the trenches and to the factors that motivated them to enlist. The Study Guide has a full list of books and other resources relevant to the study of the Australian experience of World War One and a selection of assignments and activities for student use.
Poems of the Great War
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141925302
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141925302
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the great wealth of First World War Poetry. The sequence of poems is random - making it ideal for dipping into - and drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar poetry.
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223671
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223671
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Pages : 86
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Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans
Author: Larry Rottmann
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans.
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans.
First World War Poems from the Front
Author: Paul O'Prey
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 1912423324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 1912423324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.
America at War
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416918329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A collection of poems about America at war from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416918329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A collection of poems about America at war from the Revolution to the Iraq war.
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.