โ Scribed by Greening, John;
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In a sequence of verse letters, John Greening sends dispatches across the decades, looking back over the century since the outbreak of the First World War. He addresses the war poets directly, making connections yet always aware of distance, and explores "Englishness," but also-in his translations from Heym, Trakl, Stadler, and Stramm-provides an alternative perspective. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial just before the start of the Second World War to the security forces' shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat o.;Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; War (Georg Heym); On the Eastern Front (Georg Trakl); Pleasure in Form (Ernst Stadler); In Despair (August Stramm); Langemark To August Stramm, Georg Trakl, Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym (Langemark); The Train; To Isaac Rosenberg (Dover); The Island A to Z; To Wilfrid Gibson (The Menin Gate); The Hope Valley Line; 11; To John McCrae ('Essex Farm', Yser Canal); To Robert Nichols (France); Feast Day, Melchbourne; To Edmund Blunden (Ypres); Reading John Clare on New Year's Eve; Causeway.
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