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The short poem In Memoriam exemplifies how his poetry blends the themes of war and the countryside. On 11 November 1985, Thomas was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey 's Poet's Corner . [ 34 ]
Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic.Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I. [1] A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in English, it was backed up by strong biographical research on the poets included. Those ...
August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium.
Research establishes that German and British soldiers played soccer on the Western Front during a famed World War I Christmas truce. Peace for a day: How soccer brought a brief truce to World War ...
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"MCMXIV" (1914) is a poem written by English poet Philip Larkin. It was first published in the book The Whitsun Weddings in 1964. The poem, a single sentence spread over four stanzas, begins by describing what is seemingly a photograph of volunteers lining up to enlist, and goes on to reflect on the momentous changes in England that would result from the First World War, ending, 'Never such ...