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The Oxford Book of War Poetry

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The Oxford Book of War Poetry

by: Stallworthy, Jon

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Copyright: 08/28/2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, the conflicts in Northern Ireland and El Salvador, and chilling visions of the "Next War." Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory "war songs" to the more recent "anti-war" attitudes of poets responding to "man's inhumanity to man."

Introduction

xix

THE BIBLE

from The Book of Exodus

(1)

from The Second Book of Samuel

(1)

HOMER (c.900 BC)

from The Iliad

(6)

SIMONIDES (c.556--c.468 BC)

Thermopylae

(1)

ANONYMOUS (4th century BC)

Hymn to the Fallen

(1)

VIRGIL (70--19 BC)

from The Aeneid

(3)

HORACE (65--8 BC)

from The Odes

(2)

ANEIRIN (6th century)

from The Gododdin

(2)

RIHAKU (8th century)

Lament of the Frontier Guard

(1)

ANONYMOUS (8th century)

The Finnesburh Fragment

(1)

ANONYMOUS (10th century)

The Battle of Brunanburh

(4)

ANONYMOUS (11th century)

The Battle of Maldon

(8)

ANONYMOUS (12th century)

from The Song of Roland

(2)

ANONYMOUS (12th century)

The Lament of Maev Leith-Dherg

(1)

GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1343--1400)

from The Knight's Tale

(3)

MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563--1631)

To the Cambro-Britons, and their harp, his Ballad of Agincourt

(3)

EDMUND SPENSER (1552--1599)

from Astrophel, A Pastorall Elegie Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney

(2)

SAMUEL DANIEL (1562--1619)

from The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York

(2)

HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517--1547)

`Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead'

(1)

GEORGE GASCOIGNE (?1525--1577)

from The Fruits of War

(3)

GEORGE PEELE (?1558--1596)

Farewell to Arms

(1)

JOHN DONNE (1572--1631)

A Burnt Ship

(1)

SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1606--1668)

The Soldier Going to the Field

(1)

RICHARD LOVELACE (1618--1658)

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

(1)

ANDREW MARVELL (1621--1678)

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

(3)

JOHN MILTON (1608--1674)

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

(1)

from Paradise Lost

(1)

CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET (1638--1706)

Song: Written at Sea in the First Dutch War (1665), the night before an Engagement

(3)

JOHN DRYDEN (1631--1700)

from Annus Mirabilis

(2)

DANIEL DEFOE (1660--1731)

from The Spanish Descent

(2)

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672--1719)

from The Campaign: A Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough

(1)

ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774--1843)

The Battle of Blenhein

(2)

JAMES THOMSON (1700--1748)

Rule, Brittania!

(1)

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709--1784)

from The Vanity of Human Wishes

(1)

JOHN SCOTT OF AMWELL (1730--1783)

The Drum

(1)

THOMAS CAMPBELL (1777--1844)

Ye Mariners of England

(1)

Hohenlinden

(1)

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772--1834)

Fears in Solitude

(6)

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770--1850)

Old Man Travelling

(1)

`It is not to be thought of that the flood'

(1)

To the Men of Kent

(1)

November, 1806

(1)

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792--1822)

from The Revolt of Islam

(4)

CHARLES WOLFE (1791--1823)

The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna

(1)

JOEL BARLOW (1754--1812)

Advice to a Raven in Russia

(2)

ADAM MICKIEWICZ (1798--1855)

The Year 1812

(2)

VICTOR HUGO (1802--1885)

Russia 1812

(2)

FYODOR TYUTCHEV (1803--1873)

At Vshchizh

(1)

ROBERT BROWNING (1812--1889)

Incident of the French Camp

(1)

THOMAS HARDY (1840--1928)

from The Dynasts

(2)

GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD BYRON (1788--1824)

The Destruction of Sennacherib

(1)

from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

(2)

from Don Juan

(2)

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

(2)

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, LORD MACAULAY (1800--1859)

from Horatius

101

(5)

WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN (1813--1865)

from Edinburgh after Flodden

106

(2)

MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822--1888)

from Sohrab and Rustum

108

(3)

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809--1892)

The Revenge

111

(4)

The Charge of the Light Brigade

115

(2)

from Maud

117

(2)

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811--1863)

The Due of the Dead

119

(2)

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803--1882)

Concord Hymn

121

(1)

WALT WHITMAN (1819--1892)

Beat! Beat! Drums!

121

(1)

Come up from the Fields Father

122

(2)

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night

124

(1)

The Wound-Dresser

125

(2)

Reconciliation

127

(1)

HERMAN MELVILLE (1819--1891)

The Portent

127

(1)

Ball's Bluff

128

(1)

Shiloh

129

(1)

The College Colonel

129

(1)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830--1886)

`My Portion is Defeat---today---'

130

(1)

`My Triumph lasted till the Drums'

131

(1)

STEPHEN CRANE (1871--1900)

`Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind'

131

(1)

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819--1891)

from Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

132

(3)

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819--1910)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

135

(1)

ALLEN TATE (1889--1979)

Ode to the Confederate Dead

135

(3)

RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875--1926)

Last Evening

138

(1)

ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854--1891)

from Eighteen-Seventy

139

(3)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865--1936)

Arithmetic on the Frontier

142

(1)

Tommy

143

(1)

SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (1862--1938)

He Fell among Thieves

144

(2)

Vitai Lampada

146

(1)

THOMAS HARDY (1840--1928)

Embarcation

147

(1)

The Colonel's Soliloquy

147

(2)

A Christmas Ghost-Story

149

(1)

Drummer Hodge

149

(1)

A Wife in London

150

(1)

The Man He Killed

150

(1)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859--1936)

`On the idle hill of summer'

151

(1)

`Soldier from the wars returning'

152

(1)

Grenadier

152

(1)

Lancer

153

(1)

Astronomy

154

(1)

T. W. H. CROSLAND (1865--1924)

Slain

154

(1)

EDGAR WALLACE (1875--1932)

War

155

(1)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865--1936)

Bridge-Guard in the Karroo

156

(2)

The Dykes

158

(2)

THOMAS HARDY (1840--1928)

Men Who March Away

160

(1)

In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'

161

(1)

RUPERT BROOKE (1887--1915)

Peace

162

(1)

The Dead

162

(1)

The Soldier

163

(1)

HERBERT ASQUITH (1881--1947)

The Volunteer

163

(1)

JULIAN GRENFELL (1888--1915)

Into Battle

164

(1)

JOHN MCCRAE (1872--1918)

In Flanders Fields

165

(1)

CHARLES SORLEY (1895--1915)

`All the hills and vales along'

166

(1)

`When you see millions of the mouthless dead'

167

(1)

A. E. HOUSMAN (1859--1936)

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

167

(1)

HUGH MACDIARMID (1892--1978)

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

168

(1)

CARL SANDBURG (1878--1967)

Grass

168

(1)

ROBERT FROST (1874--1963)

Range-Finding

169

(1)

WALLACE STEVENS (1879--1955)

The Death of a Soldier

169

(1)

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880--1918)

Calligram, 15 May 1915

170

(1)

BENJAMIN PERET (1899--1959)

Little Song of the Maimed

171

(1)

W. B. YEATS (1865--1939)

On Being Asked for a War Poem

171

(1)

Easter 1916

171

(3)

Sixteen Dead Men

174

(1)

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

174

(1)

Reprisals

175

(1)

SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886--1967)

`They'

176

(1)

The Hero

176

(1)

The Rear-Guard

177

(1)

The General

177

(1)

Glory of Women

178

(1)

Everyone Sang

178

(1)

EDWARD THOMAS (1878--1917)

In Memoriam (Easter 1915)

179

(1)

The Cherry Trees

179

(1)

Rain

179

(1)

As the team's head brass

180

(1)

IVOR GURNEY (1890--1937)

To His Love

181

(1)

Ballad of the Three Spectres

181

(1)

The Silent One

182

(1)

ISAAC ROSENBERG (1890--1918)

On Receiving News of the War

183

(1)

August 1914

183

(1)

Break of Day in the Trenches

184

(1)

Dead Man's Dump

185

(2)

Returning, We Hear the Larks

187

(1)

WILFRED OWEN (1893--1918)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

188

(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est

188

(1)

Exposure

189

(1)

Insensibility

190

(2)

The Send-Off

192

(1)

Futility

193

(1)

Strange Meeting

193

(2)

ROBERT GRAVES (1895--1985)

Sergeant-Major Money

195

(1)

Recalling War

195

(2)

The Persian Version

197

(1)

EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896--1974)

Two Voices

197

(1)

The Zonnebeke Road

198

(1)

Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July 1917

199

(1)

Report on Experience

199

(1)

RICHARD ALDINGTON (1892--1962)

Battlefield

200

(1)

EDGELL RICKWORD (1898--1982)

Winter Warfare

200

(1)

E. E. CUMMINGS (1894--1962)

`my sweet old etcetera'

201

(1)

`next to of course god america i'

202

(1)

`i sing of Olaf glad and big'

202

(1)

JOHN PEALE BISHOP (1892--1944)

In the Dordogne

203

(2)

DAVID JONES (1895--1974)

from In Parenthesis

205

(4)

LAURENCE BINYON (1869--1943)

For the Fallen

209

(1)

EZRA POUND (1885--1972)

from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

210

(1)

T. S. ELIOT (1888--1965)

Triumphal March

211

(1)

G. K. CHESTERTON (1874--1936)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

212

(1)

RUDYARD KIPLING (1865--1936)

Epitaphs of the War

213

(6)

ELIZABETH DARYUSH (1887--1977)

Subalterns

219

(1)

MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN (1893--1973)

Rouen

220

(2)

PHILIP LARKIN (1922--1985)

Mcmxiv

222

(1)

VERNON SCANNELL (1922-- )

The Great War

223

(1)

TED HUGHES (1930--1998)

Six Young Men

224

(1)

DOUGLAS DUNN (1942-- )

War Blinded

225

(1)

LOUIS MACNEICE (1907--1963)

from Autumn Journal

226

(3)

JOHN CORNFORD (1915--1936)

A Letter from Aragon

229

(1)

Full Moon at Tierz: Before the Storming of Huesca

230

(2)

To Margot Heinemann

232

(1)

GEORGE ORWELL (1903--1950)

`The Italian soldier shook my hand'

232

(2)

ANONYMOUS (MID-1930s)

`Eyes of men running, falling, screaming'

234

(1)

LAURIE LEE (1914--1997)

A Moment of War

234

(1)

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893--1978)

Benicasim

235

(1)

W. H. AUDEN (1907--1973)

Spain 1937

236

(3)

STEPHEN SPENDER (1909--1995)

Two Armies

239

(1)

Ultima Ratio Regum

240

(1)

BERNARD SPENCER (1909--1963)

A Thousand Killed

241

(1)

HERBERT READ (1893--1968)

To a Conscript of 1940

242

(1)

LOUIS ARAGON (1897--1983)

The Lilacs and the Roses

243

(1)

G. DAY LEWIS (1904--1972)

The Stand-To

244

(1)

Where are the War Poets?

245

(1)

DAVID GASCOYNE (1916--2001)

Ecce Homo

246

(2)

EDITH SITWELL (1887--1964)

Still Falls the Rain

248

(1)

H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886--1961)

from The Walls Do Not Fall

249

(2)

LOUIS MACNEICE (1907--1963)

The Streets of Laredo

251

(1)

R. N. CURREY (1907--2001)

Unseen Fire

252

(1)

KENNETH ALLOTT (1912--1973)

Prize for Good Conduct

253

(1)

HENRY REED (1914--1986)

Lessons of the War

254

(3)

ALUN LEWIS (1915--1944)

All day it has rained

257

(1)

Dawn on the East Coast

258

(1)

Goodbye

259

(1)

Song

260

(1)

SIDNEY KEYES (1922--1943)

from The Foreign Gate

261

(3)

Timoshenko

264

(1)

from The Wilderness

265

(2)

KEITH DOUGLAS (1920--1944)

Gallantry

267

(1)

Vergissmeinnicht

267

(1)

Aristocrats

268

(1)

NORMAN CAMERON (1905--1953)

Green, Green is El Aghir

269

(1)

F. T. PRINCE (1912-- )

Soldiers Bathing

270

(2)

ROY FULLER (1912-- )

The Middle of a War

272

(1)

GAVIN EWART (1916--1995)

When a Beau Goes In

272

(1)

MARIANNE MOORE (1887--1972)

In Distrust of Merits

273

(2)

RICHARD EBERHART (1904-- )

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

275

(1)

RANDALL JARRELL (1914--1965)

Eighth Air Force

276

(1)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

277

(1)

A Camp in the Prussian Forest

277

(1)

A Front

278

(1)

W. D. SNODGRASS (1926-- )

`After Experience Taught Me

279

(1)

LOUIS SIMPSON (1923-- )

Carentan O Carentan

280

(2)

Memories of a Lost War

282

(1)

The Battle

282

(1)

The Heroes

283

(1)

RICHARD WILBUR (1921-- )

First Snow in Alsace

283

(1)

LINCOLN KIRSTEIN (1907--1996)

Rank

284

(2)

Foresight

286

(1)

VERNON SCANNELL (1922-- )

Walking Wounded

287

(2)

PAUL DEHN (1912--1976)

St Aubin D'Aubigne

289

(1)

DYLAN THOMAS (1914--1953)

The hand that signed the paper

289

(1)

JAMES DICKEY (1923--1997)

The Firebombing

290

(7)

KARL SHAPIRO (1913--2000)

Elegy for a Dead Soldier

297

(4)

EPHIM FOGEL (1920--1992)

Shipment to Maidanek

301

(1)

W. H. AUDEN (1907--1973)

from Sonnets from China

302

(1)

ANTHONY HECHT (1923-- )

`More Light! More Light!'

303

(1)

THOM GUNN (1929-- )

Claus Von Stauffenberg

304

(1)

CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917-- )

Armistice Day

305

(1)

At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux

306

(1)

SIR JOHN BETJEMAN (1906--1984)

In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

307

(1)

HOWARD NEMEROV (1920--1991)

A Fable of the War

308

(1)

Redeployment

309

(1)

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892--1982)

Memorial Rain

310

(1)

JOHN PUDNEY (1909--1977)

For Johnny

311

(1)

JAMES TATE (1943-- )

The Lost Pilot

312

(1)

GEORGE MACBETH (1932-- )

The Land-Mine

313

(2)

ALAN ROSS (1922-- )

Off Brighton Pier

315

(1)

JON STALLWORTHY (1935-- )

A Letter from Berlin

315

(2)

GEOFFREY HILL (1932-- )

September Song

317

(1)

ANDREI VOZNESENSKY (1933-- )

I am Goya

318

(1)

ROBERT LOWELL (1917--1977)

Fall 1961

318

(1)

For the Union Dead

319

(2)

ALLEN GINSBERG (1926--1997)

A Vow

321

(2)

DENISE LEVERTOV (1923--1997)

What Were They Like?

323

(1)

GALWAY KINNELL (1927-- )

Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond

324

(1)

ROBERT MEZEY (1935-- )

How Much Longer?

325

(1)

MARGARET ATWOOD (1939-- )

It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers

326

(1)

ADRIAN MITCHELL (1932-- )

To Whom It May Concern

327

(1)

JAMES FENTON (1949-- )

Dead Soldiers

328

(3)

SEAMUS HEANEY (1939-- )

Requiem for the Croppies

331

(1)

Whatever You Say Say Nothing

331

(3)

The Strand at Lough Beg

334

(2)

CAROLYN FORCHE (1951-- )

The Colonel

336

(1)

RICHARD WILBUR (1921-- )

Advice to a Prophet

337

(1)

WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914--1993)

At the Bomb Testing Site

338

(1)

PETER PORTER (1929-- )

Your Attention Please

339

(2)

Notes and References

341

(3)

Acknowledgements

344

(7)

Index of First Lines

351

(6)

Index of Poets and Translators

357

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