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The main reason I decided to post was that I wanted to recommend the book that crich70 provided a link to on Amazon (it is public domain and free in the US!). I really enjoyed the variety. The poems presented a more patriotic and romantic perspective of war, a nice contrast to Sassoon's poetry. The description from Goodreads is below. Quote:
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I have my ancient paperback, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, which I see is available in Kindle as linked. I'm not saying it's the best and it's certainly not the most comprehensive, but it gives a good overview and is nice for dipping into.
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Graves and Sasoon fell out because, in his war memoir, Graves recounted how Sasoon took a machine gun nest, sat in it for a while and read poetry, then marched back to his line, and the Germans retook it. The guy was wild. For some reason, Sasoon didnt want it revealed. Both men's memoirs are impressive. IMO both men were better in prose than verse. I think that maybe Graves is the last great English novelist. I dont know anything that has matched I Claudius. Tolkien is better of course, but he was born in South Africa
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The only American memoir I can think of that IMO matches the lyricism of Graves and Sasoon is One of Our Bombers Is Missing by Dan Brennan. Yet nowhere seems to have heard of it. It's WWII btw.
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I found a great collection that seems a bargain at $8.83 for the wealth of information inside! The Winter Of The World: Poems Of The Great War edited by Dominic Hibberd, who appears to be a recognized authority on war poetry and also wrote a biography of Wilfred Owen. It was published in Oct 2013. It is arranged by year rather than theme. There is a very lengthy introduction about war poetry. Then each year has a brief description of important war events. What I really like is that every poem has an explanation about where it was published and other notes about the author, why they wrote the poem, definitions of special words or places in the poem for better context, etc.
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That sounds like a really interesting and useful anthology, Bookworm_Girl. I'll look out for it.
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What i particularly liked was a print version of the handwritten script of Owen's "Strange Meeting" showing how rough a copy that poem was at his death. |
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I discovered this great Oxford website, The First World War Digital Poetry Archive.
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WOW! Thank you very much Bookworm_Girl.
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Bookworm girl you are a treasure trove!
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I found this book which looks very interesting too. The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets by Nicholas Murray.
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Thanks, Bookworm_Girl.
It looks very interesting. I found these reviews from The Telegraph and The Independent. Here's an interesting blog: http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2011/0...-of-youth.html The reviews and blog posts are really interesting. I think that this is book I must read. |
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Thanks, BelleZora! I will read those links. I just accidentally stumbled upon it while looking for another book.
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