Three World War I Poems
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World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others (Unabridged)
- UPC: 800759295685
- ASIN: 0486295680
- ISBN: 0486295680
- Brand: Ward, Candace (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself.This volume contains a rich selection of poems from that time by Rupert Brooke, W... [Read More]
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0141181907
- ISBN: 0141181907
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here are famous verses by Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sa... [Read More]
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A Corner of a Foreign Field
- ASIN: 0954526783
- ISBN: 0954526783
- Manufacturer: Transatlantic Press
"Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. And there are poems from an earlier age whose themes and aching beauty exactly matched the mood of a nation as an ent... [Read More]
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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0198703201
- ISBN: 0198703201
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of th... [Read More]
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Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0199540683
- ISBN: 0199540683
- Brand: Lucan/ Braund, Susan H. (TRN)
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's writing and his grimly realistic view of the subject. The work is a powerful condemnation of civ... [Read More]
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Poets of World War 1: Wilfred Owen & Isaac Rosenberg - Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
- UPC: 753849059325
- ASIN: 0791059324
- ISBN: 0791059324
- Brand: Brand: Chelsea House Pub (L)
- Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications
-- User's guide -- A comprehensive biography of the poet -- Detailed thematic analysis of each poem -- Extracts from major critical essays that discuss important aspects of each poem -- A complete bibliography of the writer's poetic works -- A list of critical works about the poet and his works -- An index of themes and ideas in the author's work... [Read More]
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A Hero for All Time: A Decorated Soldier of World War I, Mathew L. English from Fort Casey Washington
- ASIN: 1514876981
- ISBN: 1514876981
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Affluent lifestyle—influential family—prestigious education—Math English had none of these. Yet he was envied by those who did. How could English, orphaned as a child, raised in post-Civil War Georgia with only an eighth grade education, an army recruit at 21 working his way up through the ranks, inspire the famous George S. Patton Jr.? What ... [Read More]
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Beautiful Wreckage: New & Selected Poems
- ASIN: 0938566822
- ISBN: 0938566822
- Brand: Brand: Adastra Press
- Manufacturer: Adastra Press
Poetry. Comprising 30 years of work from 12 collections, BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE includes early poems never before collected along with 24 new poems. A hunger for honesty and a charged lyricism have always made Bill Ehrhart's poetry remarkably his own. Though he's best known for his Vietnam War poems, his BEAUTIFUL WRECKAGE: NEW & SELECTED POEMS include... [Read More]
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Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War
- ASIN: 1571312730
- ISBN: 9781571312730
- Brand: Brand: Milkweed Editions
- Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions
Born the year World War I began, acclaimed poet William Stafford (1914-1993) spent World War II in a camp for conscientious objectors. Throughout a century of conflict he remained convinced that wars simply don’t work. In his writings, Stafford showed it is possibleand crucialto think independently when fanatics act, and to speak for reconcil... [Read More]
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The Winter of the World
- ASIN: 1845298888
- ISBN: 1845298888
- Brand: Constable
- Manufacturer: Constable & Robinson
With over 250 poems from the First World War, this anthology delivers an extraordinary record of the passionate feelings and terrible experiences of the war to end all wars.
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War Letters of Fallen Englishmen (Pine Street Books)
- ASIN: 0812218159
- ISBN: 0812218159
- Brand: Brand: Pine Street Books
- Manufacturer: Pine Street Books
More than eight million young men perished during the First World War—a staggering figure. The natural reaction to such a great loss of humanity was to forget the individuals and recast the conflict into one of faceless armies and battles commemorated in stone and metal monuments. War Letters of Fallen Englishmen was published following the war i... [Read More]
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Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose
- ASIN: 0374175373
- ISBN: 0374175373
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionismThe first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)―written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after―with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and... [Read More]
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War and the Iliad
- ASIN: 1590171454
- ISBN: 1590171454
- Brand: Brand: New York Review Books
- Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired analysis of Homer's epic that presents a nightmare vi... [Read More]
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Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0199231958
- ISBN: 0199231958
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil's ancient hexameter, a swift-moving six-beat line varying between twelve and seventeen syllables, to reproduce the original poetry in a thrillingly accurate and eng... [Read More]
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Minds at War
- ASIN: 0952896907
- ISBN: 0952896907
- Brand: Brand: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
- Manufacturer: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.
Featuring over 250 poems by 80 poets, this is the largest and most comprehensive anthology of World War I poetry available. It includes: great classic poems of the war, the war's most popular and propagandist verse, war poetry of well-known fiction writers, women poets of the war, poetry exploring the common experiences of the war, extracts from di... [Read More]
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Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars
- ASIN: 0807849790
- ISBN: 0807849790
- Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Poetry makes nothing happen," wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope a... [Read More]
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)
- ASIN: 0393329879
- ISBN: 0393329879
- Brand: Preston, Paul
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative. Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately... [Read More]
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Inside Out and Back Again
- UPC: 884539314490
- ASIN: 0061962791
- ISBN: 0061962791
- Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
- Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye v... [Read More]
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Poets Against the War
- ASIN: 1560255390
- ISBN: 1560255390
- Manufacturer: Nation Books
Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since then, over 9,000 poets have joined this grassroots peace movement by submitting poems and statements to www.poetsa... [Read More]
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The Iliad
- ASIN: 0140275363
- ISBN: 9780140275360
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruct... [Read More]
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