Perspectives on World War I poetry
β Scribed by Evans, Robert C
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 230
- Series
- Literary studies
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: 1."Channel firing"
"In time of 'the breaking of nations'" / Thomas Hardy --
A Shropshire Lad XXXV --
"On the idle hill of summer" / A. E. Housman --
2."The hospital visitor" / Alys Fane Trotter --
"In a soldier's hospital I: Pluck"
"In a soldier's hospital II: Gramophone tunes" / Eva Dobell --
3."May, 1915" / Charlotte Mew --
"To America" / James Weldon Johnson --
"In Flanders fields" / John McCrae --
4."Tears"
"Rain" / Edward Thomas --
"Now that you too must shortly go the way" / Eleanor Farjeon --
5."A memory" / Margaret Sackville --
"There will come soft rains" / Sara Teasdale --
6."They"
"The rear-guard"
"The glory of women"
"Atrocities" / Siegfried Sassoon --
7."Nineteen fourteen: The soldier"
"Nineteen fourteen: The dead" / Rupert Brooke --
"A war film" / Teresa Hooley --
"The little peoples" / Claude McKay --
8."Break of day in the trenches"
"Louse hunting"
"Returning, we hear the larks" / Isaac Rosenberg
β¦ Subjects
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war. War poetry, English -- History and criticism. American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. War poetry, American -- History and criticism. American poetry / 20th century / History and criticism. English poetry / 20th century / History and criticism.
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