The winter of the world : poems of the Great War

This new anthology brings together 270 poems and is the most complete and authoritative ever compiled. Arranged by year rather than by poet, it is the first to reveal how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, and afterwards from 1919 - 1930. The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time in history, the real horror of war. The result is an extraordinary record of passionate feelings and appalling experiences, written by men and women from widely different backgrounds, of unique and enduring importance. All the major poets are generously represented, Owen, Brooke, Sassoon, Blunden, Gurney, Graves and Rosenberg, but here too are many unfamiliar yet remarkable poems from the less familiar, Joseph Leftwich, F S Flint, 'Touchstone'; female poets: Edith Sitwell; Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon; and writers not always associated with WWI poetry, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Accompanying notes to the poems, historical events and the poets give precise, relevant information and suggest links to other poems, so the book as a whole forms a fascinating, moving narrative. Praise for Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology: 'This splendid anthology...immaculately crafted...wide and authorative...[is] recommended unhesitatingly to both a popular and academic readership. Choice, USA Praise for Wilfred Owen: A New Biography: 'Rich, compelling, formidably researched.' John Carey, Sunday Times The Present Book Is The First Anthology Of Great War Poetry To Make A Serious Attempt To Present Poems In Chronological Order. There Are Six Sections, One For Each Year From 1914-1918 And One For The Post-war Decade, Each Prefaced By A Historical Outline To Give A Context For The Poems. Inevitably, Not All The Dates Are Known, So We Have Not Always Kept Strictly To Chronology Within Each Year: Civilians Are Sometimes Separated From Soldiers, Because Their Experiences Of The War Were Necessarily Very Different, And Sometimes Poems By The Same Author Are Grouped Together--page Xxxv. Poems. 1914 -- 1915 -- 1916 -- 1917 -- 1918 -- 1919-1930. Edited By Dominic Hibberd And John Onions. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time in history, the real horror of war. Their book demolishes numerous myths and misconceptions, demonstrating, for example, that the first poems of protest and frontline realism were written by civilians, not by soldiers The definitive anthology of First World War poetry. A collection of 270 poems with accompanying notes.