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This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen. "1914" "Anthem for Doomed Youth" "Arms and the Boy" "As Bronze may be much Beautified" "Asleep" "At a Calvary near the Ancre" "Beauty" "The Bending Over of Clancy Year 12 on October 19th" "But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars" "The Calls" "The Chances" "Conscious" "Cramped in that Funny Hole" "The ...
With the name Gerald Caldwell he had two poems printed in the Times. The first poem, "Autumn 1914" was printed on 13 November 1914. [4] On 30 November 1915, Siordet's second poem To the Dead was first print in the Times; it was subsequently reprinted in A Crown of Amaranth (1917) and included in the collection A Book of Verse of the Great War ...
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
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 ...
The novel is narrated by Thomas McNulty, an Irish émigré who flees to Canada and then America to escape the Great Famine.In America he befriends John Cole and the two fall in love, working first, as young boys, as cross-dressing entertainers and then enlisting in the army and taking part in both the Indian Wars and the American Civil War.
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.
Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914, Nichols served on the Western Front, including the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme, until invalided home with shell shock in August 1916. He began to give poetry readings, in 1917. In 1918 he was a member of an official British propaganda mission to the USA, where he also gave ...
During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War. His poem " Wait for Me ", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return, remains one of the best-known poems in Russian literature.