POETRY OF WORLD WAR I RESOURCES

     created by Peggy Beck Haines 

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ENTRIES IN QUOTATION MARKS ARE POEMS.

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY

LIVES OF WAR POETS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

THE OVERSHADOWED ((William Noel Hodgson, Cyril Morton Horne, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Major Owen Rutter, Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, Leslie Phillips Jones, Eric Shepherd, Patrick MacGill, (Americans: Paul Green, Herbert Kaufman, Robert Meader Easton), (Australians: Lance-Corporal Cobber, Alexander G. Steven)AND THE SURPRISING (A. A. Milne, Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), Joyce Kilmer, Edgar A. Guest, General George S. Patton, Jr.)

POETRY AND POETS OF WORLD WAR I

                INTRODUCTION TO FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY
                LIVES OF WAR POETS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
                THE OVERSHADOWED ((William Noel Hodgson, Cyril Morton Horne, Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Major Owen Rutter, Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, Leslie Phillips Jones, Eric Shepherd, Patrick MacGill, (Americans: Paul Green, Herbert Kaufman, Robert Meader Easton), (Australians: Lance-Corporal Cobber, Alexander G. Steven)AND THE SURPRISING (A. A. Milne, Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), Joyce Kilmer, Edgar A. Guest, General George S. Patton, Jr.)
                POETS OF THE GREAT WAR
                PROSE AND POETRY
                A TREASURY OF WAR POETRY: BRITISH & AMERICAN POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR (1914-1917) 
                WORLD WAR I LITERATURE FROM SPARTACUS/ SCHOOLNET

SPECIFIC  POETS OF WORLD WAR I

         BLUNDEN, EDMUND (1896-1974)

              "AT SENLIS ONCE"
                  EDMUND BLUNDEN
                EDMUND BLUNDEN: PROSE & POETRY
                "1916 SEEN FROM 1921"
                "PREPARATIONS FOR VICTORY"  (SCROLL DOWN.)
                 "VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917"     (SCROLL DOWN.)

        BROOKE, RUPERT (1887-1915)

                  "A CHANNEL PASSAGE" 
                "THE FISH"
                "HEAVEN"
                 AN INTRODUCTION TO RUPERT BROOKE   
                 LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: RUPERT BROOKE
                   "PEACE"
                 RUPERT BROOKE: PROSE & POETRY 
                 SELECTED POETRY OF RUPERT BROOKE
                "THE SOLDIER"
                WAR SONNETS ("PEACE," "THE DEAD," & "THE SOLDIER")       

        CUMMINGS, E. E. 

                LITERARY AMBULANCE DRIVERS

        GRENFELL, JULIAN

               BIOGRAPHY OF JULIAN GRENFELL
                 "INTO BATTLE" 
                SELECTED POETRY OF JULIAN GRENFELL        

        HARDY, THOMAS (NOT WRITTEN DURING WWI, BUT READ DURING WWI)

                "CHANNEL FIRING"
                "THE MAN HE KILLED" (1905)
                THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

        KIPLING, RUDYARD

                 A COMPLETE COLLECVTION OF POEMS BY RUDYARD KIPLING
                "THE HYAENAS"
                 "JUSTICE"
                "THE KING'S PILGRIMAGE" 
                "LONDON STONE"
                 "MESOPOTAMIA"

                 "MY BOY JACK"

        MASEFIELD, JOHN

               * "AUGUST, 1914"

        McCRAE, JOHN (1872-1918)

               "THE ANXIOUS DEAD"
                 "IN FLANDERS FIELD"
                "IN FLANDERS FIELD" : THE MAKING OF THE POEM
                JOHN McCRAE & "IN FLANDERS FIELD"
                LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: JOHN McCRAE'S "IN FLANDERS FIELD" 
                "THE PILGRIMS"
                THE STORY OF JOHN McCRAE

        OWEN, WILFRED (1893-1918)

                 "ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH"
                "DISABLED"
                 "DULCE ET DECORUM EST"
                 "EXPOSURE"
                "FUTILITY"
                 "GREATER LOVE"
                AN INTRODUCTION TO WILFRED OWEN 
                "THE LETTER"
                LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: WILFRED OWEN
                "THE PARABLE OF THE OLD MAN AND THE YOUNG"
                "THE SEND-OFF"
                "SPRING OFFENSIVE"
                "STRANGE MEETING"
                WAR POEMS & MANUSCRIPTS OF WILFRED OWEN 
                WILFRED OWEN & "FUTILITY"
                WILFRED OWEN & HIS EARLY EDITIONS
                THE WILFRED OWEN MULTIMEDIA DIGITAL ARCHIVE

        ROSENBERG, ISAAC (1890-1918)

                "BREAK OF DAY IN THE TRENCHES"
                "DEAD MAN'S DUMP"
                "GOD"
                AN INTRODUCTION TO ISAAC ROSENBERG  
                ISAAC ROSENBERG
                LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: ISAAC ROSENBERG 
                "LOUSE HUNTING"
                "ON RECEIVING NEWS OF THE WAR, 1914" 
               "RETURNING WE HEAR LARKS"
                "THROUGH THESE PALE COLD DAYS"

        SASSOON, SIEGRIED (1886-1967)

     "AFTERMATH"
     "BANISHMENT
   "BASE DETAILS"
   "THE COUNTER ATTACK"
   "DOES IT MATTER?"  (1918)
   "DREAMERS"
     "EX-SERVICE"
   "THE FATHERS"
   "GLORY OF WOMEN"
   "HOW TO DIE"
   AN INTRODUCTION TO SIEGFRIED SASSOON
    "MEMORIAL TABLET" 
    "ON PASSING THE NEW MENIN GATE"
    "THE ONE-LEGGED MAN"
   "REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE"
     "SICK LEAVE"
     SIEGFRIED SASSOON

        SEEGER, ALAN (1888-1916)

                ALAN SEEGER
                "I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH"
                LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: ALAN SEEGER

        THOMAS, EDWARD (1878-1917)

                "AS THE TEAM'S HEAD-BRASS"
                 EDWARD THOMAS
                AN INTRODUCTION TO EDWARD THOMAS  
                 LOST POETS OF THE GREAT WAR: EDWARD THOMAS 
               "A PRIVATE" (1915)
                 "RAIN"
                 "THIS IS NO CASE OF PETTY RIGHT OR WRONG" 
                "WORDS"

        YEATS, W. B. 

                "AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH"

 

  TRENCH POETRY & SONGS

                EDGELL RICKWORD'S "TRENCH POETS" 
                INTRODUCTION TO FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY TRENCH POETRY & SONGS
                TRENCH POETRY: WOODBINE WILLY
                TRENCH SONGS

WOMEN'S WORLD WAR I POETRY

                 CHARLOTTE MEW'S "THE CENOTAPH"
                WOMEN'S WORLD WAR I POETRY

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