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Cannan published three volumes of poetry during and after the war. These were In War Time (1917), The Splendid Days (1919) which was dedicated to Bevil Quiller-Couch, and The House of Hope (1923), dedicated to her father. In 1934, she wrote one novel The Lonely Generation.
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 ...
3 1800–1914. 4 First World War. 5 Interwar period. 6 Second World War. ... Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First ...
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.
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...
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.