This anthology from Imperial War Museum provides a new approach focusing on the best poems by the poets who were actually on the front line. It includes the most famous poets - Owen, Sassoon, Brooke - in greater than usual depth, plus rising stars such as Gurney and Blunden.

O'Prey, Paul, 1956- editor; Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), publisher

London: Imperial War Museum

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

London, cop. 2014

PS, 2014

From How to Die, by Siegfried Sassoon
Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
To watch the glory that returns;
He lifts his fingers toward the skies
Where holy brightness breaks in flame;
Radiance reflected in his eyes,
And on his lips a whispered name.
The poems in this anthologyall written by poets who served on the front linedraw readers into the horrors of life in the trenches, documenting events as they unfolded in excruciating detail and creating a body of work so vivid that it continues to haunt us one hundred years later.
With First World War Poems from the Front , Paul OPrey offers an in-depth exploration of the Great War poets, including powerful poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Julian Grenfell, as well as two World War I nurses: Vera Brittain and Mary Borden. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction and short biographical profiles that set them in context for readers new to the works.

176 pages : 19 cm
Poems from the Front brings together the best poets who saw active service in the First World War. It includes iconic solider-poets such as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, as well as nurses, a medical orderly and an Army chaplain. All wrote with the authority that comes from direct experience of the war, and with the commitment to truthful witness that guarantees the authenticity of their work. - Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (page 175)

2023-06-28