this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across ...
So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well-educated soldier officers, including Wilfred Owen, came to view the ...
Use this short lesson to provide students with historical and societal context during World War One. Explore how this context shaped the poetry of Owen, Binyon and Brooke, as well as other influences ...
But it will be the arrival of a 68-year-old retired teacher from Norfolk that will be most eagerly anticipated at the World War One Poetry Spring School, being run by Oxford University’s English ...
Laurence Binyon was an English poet. In 1914, he wrote 'For the Fallen ... Finished 20 years before World War One, Tower Bridge is one of London’s iconic landmarks and is as much of an ...
The US president used the poignant words of an Irish great to sum up the state of the world in his last UN address ...
Jeffery Day gave up a place at Cambridge University and joined up to the RAF aged 18, against the wishes of his parents A World War One poet pilot shot down aged 21 in 1918 is being commemorated ...
A memorial to Scottish World War One poets has been unveiled in Edinburgh's Makars' Court. The granite Celtic cross is designed to ensure that the "poetic words and warnings of war will echo into ...
It has been estimated that the First World War provoked the writing of 1.5 million poems. Poems by soldier-poets on all sides of the conflict have been collected and published in sundry volumes ...
Giovanelli, Marcello 2019. Construing and reconstruing the horrors of the trench: Siegfried Sassoon, creativity and context. Journal of Literary Semantics, Vol. 48 ...
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...
Married to Gerald Brenan, with whom she spent the last years of her life in Churriana, she had enjoyed a bohemian life in New ...