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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Revised Edition

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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry Revised Edition

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9780141180090
ISBN 10:
0141180099
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/01/1997
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

The recent PBS 8-part miniseries THE GREAT WAR sparked renewed interest in the First World War. More than photographs or eyewitness reports, the poetry written during the embedded the horror of the war in our consciousness. Now, supplemented with five new poems, the works of 38 British, European, and American writers collected here include some of the most outstanding and poignant poems of this century.

Acknowledgements

(4)

Note To The Second Edition

(1)

Note on the 1996 Edition

(2)

Introduction

(63)

Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)

(3)

Channel Firing

(1)

Drummer Hodge

(2)

Rupert Brooke (1887--1915)

(2)

From 1914

IV. The Dead

(1)

V. The Soldier

(2)

Julian Grenfell (1888--1915)

(2)

Into Battle

(2)

John McCrae (1872--1918)

(1)

In Flanders Fields

(1)

Alan Seeger (1888--1916)

(1)

Rendezvous

(1)

Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895--1915)

(4)

`All the hills and vales along'

(1)

Two Sonnets

(1)

`When you see millions of the mouthless dead'

(2)

Edward Thomas (1878--1917)

(11)

A Private

(1)

Man and Dog

(2)

The Owl

(1)

In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)

(1)

Fifty Faggots

(1)

This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong

(1)

Rain

(1)

Roads

(2)

February Afternoon

(1)

The Cherry Trees

(1)

As the Team's Head-Brass

(1)

Gone, Gone Again

100

(2)

Edmund Blunden (1896--1974)

102

(13)

Two Voices

102

(1)

Preparations for Victory

102

(1)

Come On, My Lucky Lads

103

(1)

The Zonnebeke Road

104

(2)

Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July, 1917

106

(1)

Third Ypres

106

(4)

Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm

110

(1)

La Quinque Rue

111

(1)

The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards

111

(1)

1916 seen from 1921

112

(1)

Report on Experience

113

(1)

The Midnight Skaters

114

(1)

Ivor Gurney (1890--1937)

115

(5)

To His Love

115

(1)

The Silent One

116

(1)

The Bohemians

116

(1)

Butchers and Tombs

117

(1)

War Books

117

(1)

Strange Hells

118

(1)

It is near Toussaints

119

(1)

Robert Graves (1895--1985)

120

(3)

To Robert Nichols

120

(1)

Recalling War

121

(2)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886--1967)

123

(12)

A Working Party

123

(1)

`The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still'

124

(3)

The Death-Bed

127

(1)

Prelude: The Troops

128

(1)

Counter-Attack

129

(2)

Base Details

131

(1)

Lamentations

131

(1)

Does it Matter?

131

(1)

Glory of Women

132

(1)

Repression of War Experience

133

(2)

Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936)

135

(3)

Epitaphs of the War (1914--18)

A Servant

135

(1)

A Son

135

(1)

The Coward

135

(1)

Pelicans in the Wilderness (A Grave near Halfa)

135

(1)

The Refined Man

135

(1)

Common Form

136

(1)

A Drifter off Tarentum

136

(1)

Gethsemane (1914--18)

136

(2)

Edgell Rickword (1898-- )

138

(2)

The Soldier Addresses his Body

138

(1)

Winter Warfare

139

(1)

E. E. Cummings (1894--1962)

140

(1)

`my sweet old etcetera'

140

(1)

Richard Aldington (1892--1962)

141

(4)

Field Manoeuvres

Outpost Duty

141

(1)

In the Trenches

142

(1)

Trench Idyll

143

(1)

Resentment

144

(1)

Ford Madox Ford (1873--1939)

145

(2)

From `Antwerp'

145

(1)

That Exploit of Yours

146

(1)

F. S. Flint (1885--1960)

147

(2)

Lament

147

(2)

Alice Meynell (1847--1922)

149

(2)

Summer in England, 1914

149

(2)

May Wedderburn Cannan (1893--1973)

151

(2)

Lamplight

151

(2)

Charlotte Mew (1869--1928)

153

(2)

The Cenotaph

153

(2)

Margaret Postgate Cole (1893--1980)

155

(2)

The Veteran

155

(1)

Afterwards

155

(2)

Mina Loy (1882--1966)

157

(2)

Der Blinde Junge

157

(2)

T. E. Hulme (1883--1917)

159

(1)

Trenches: St Eloi

159

(1)

Herbert Read (1893--1968)

160

(17)

The Happy Warrior

160

(1)

The End of a War

Argument

160

(2)

Meditation of a Dying German Officer

162

(5)

Dialogue between the Body and the Soul of the Murdered Girl

167

(4)

Meditation of the Waking English Officer

171

(5)

A Short Poem for Armstice Day

176

(1)

David Jones (1895--1974)

177

(8)

From In Parenthesis, Part 7

177

(8)

Harold Munro (1879--1932)

185

(2)

From `Youth in Arms'

185

(2)

IV. Carrion

185

(2)

John Peale Bishop (1892--1944)

187

(2)

In the Dordogne

187

(2)

Frederic Manning (1887--1935)

189

(1)

Grotesque

189

(1)

Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)

190

(23)

Exposure

190

(1)

The Dead-Beat

191

(1)

Dulce Et Decorum Est

192

(1)

Anthem for Doomed Youth

193

(1)

Disabled

194

(1)

Miners

195

(2)

Apologia Pro Poemate Meo

197

(1)

The Show

198

(1)

Insensibility

199

(2)

A Terre

201

(2)

From `Wild with All Regrets'

203

(1)

The Send-Off

204

(1)

Mental Cases

205

(1)

Futility

206

(1)

Strange Meeting

206

(2)

The Sentry

208

(1)

Smile, Smile, Smile

209

(1)

Spring Offensive

210

(3)

D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

213

(1)

Song of Man Who Has Come Through

213

(1)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890--1918)

214

(20)

On Receiving News of the War

214

(1)

From Moses

215

(2)

Marching (As Seen from the Left File)

217

(1)

August 1914

217

(1)

Break of Day in the Trenches

218

(1)

`A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'

219

(1)

Louse Hunting

219

(1)

Returning, We Hear the Larks

220

(1)

Dead Man's Dump

221

(2)

Daughters of War

223

(2)

From The Amulet

225

(1)

The Tower of Skulls

226

(1)

From The Unicorn

227

(4)

Soldier: Twentieth Century

231

(1)

Girl to Soldier on Leave

231

(1)

The Burning of the Temple

232

(1)

The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes

233

(1)

Archibald Macleish (1892--1982)

234

(1)

The Silent Slain

234

(1)

Carl Sandburg (1878--1967)

235

(1)

Grass

235

(1)

Edna ST Vincent Millay (1892--1950)

236

(1)

Conscientious Objector

236

(1)

Georg Heym (1887--1912)

237

(3)

War

237

(1)

`Why do you visit me, white moths, so often?'

238

(2)

Georg Trakl (1886--1914)

240

(4)

Trumpets

240

(1)

Night

240

(1)

Dejection

241

(1)

In the East

242

(1)

Lament

242

(1)

Grodek

243

(1)

Alfred Lichtenstein (1889--1941)

244

(1)

Leaving for the Front

244

(1)

Ernst Stadler (1883--1914)

245

(2)

Decampment

245

(2)

Wilhelm Klemm (1881--1968)

247

(3)

Clearing-Station

247

(1)

Clearing Station

248

(2)

August Stramm (1864--1915)

250

(1)

Guard-Duty

250

(1)

Battlefield

250

(1)

Albert Ehrenstein (1886--1950)

251

(1)

The Poet and War

251

(1)

Anton Schnack (1892--1973)

252

(2)

Nocturnal Landscape

252

(2)

Yvan Goll (1891--1950)

254

(2)

From Requiem for the Dead of Europe

Recitative (I)

254

(1)

Recitative (VIII)

255

(1)

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880--1918)

256

(3)

Shadow

256

(1)

The Sighs of the Gunner from Dakar

257

(2)

Charles Vildrac (1882--1971)

259

(2)

Relief

259

(2)

Bejain Peret (1899--1959)

261

(1)

Little Song of the Maimed

261

(1)

Rene Arcos (1881--1959)

262

(1)

The Dead

262

(1)

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888--1970)

263

(7)

Agony

263

(1)

Vigil

263

(1)

Brothers

264

(1)

I am a creature

265

(1)

Rivers

265

(2)

San Martino del Carso

267

(1)

Italy

268

(1)

No More Crying Out

269

(1)

Eugenio Montale (1896--1981)

270

(3)

Thrust and Riposte

270

(3)

Aleksandr Blok (1880--1921)

273

(1)

The Kite

273

(1)

Anna Akhmatova (1889--1967)

274

(2)

July 1914

274

(2)

Osip Mandelstam (1891--1938)

276

(1)

Petropolis

276

(1)

URI ZVI Greenberg (1895--1981)

277

(2)

Naming Souls

277

(2)

Marina Tsvetayeva (1892--1941)

279

(1)

`A white low sun'

279

(1)

Postscript

280

(1)

Wang Chien (c. AD 830)

281

(2)

Hearing That His Friend Was Coming Back from the War

281

(2)

Bibliography

283

(6)

Index of Poets and Translators

289

(4)

Index of First Lines

293

(6)

Index of Titles

299

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