Cummings served as an ambulance driver in World War I and published his first book of poetry a few years after. Best known for his lyric poems, cummings also drew attention for his unconventional ...

A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...

MALCOLM BRABANT: After 40 years of covering conflicts around the world, Lindsey Hilsum ... with them and they go to a war zone, but you take a book of poetry. LINDSEY HILSUM: I take both a bottle ...

Have we made a schoolboy error? When we think of World War One we picture weary soldiers ‘coughing like hags’ cursing as they wade through ‘the sludge’ of the trenches. We hear the ...

The US president used the poignant words of an Irish great to sum up the state of the world in his last UN address ...

But the First World War produced some of the most gifted and progressive authors, poets and artists of a generation ... art at the Slade School and after graduating she specialised in portraits ...

After the war he returned to the Museum. War poetry or poetry about the war was not the sole preserve of men. You could expect anthologies of First World War poetry to include poems by Charlotte ...

Poet Wilfred Owen's link with Craiglockhart ... "For history, it's an important moment, because more than 100 years after the end of the First World War, it shows there's still much evidence ...

Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War ...

form a better world." As he saw it, the challenge after the war was to move from "the national ... his vocation by citing a few lines from the poet for whom he was named, Walt Whitman: "All ...

In 1939, the poet W.H. Auden referred to the previous ... had preexisting grievances with the world established after World War I. And, after the failure of a global order based on liberal ...