War Poems (eBook)
128 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-83484-9 (ISBN)
At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English soldier-poet to achieve notoriety as an opponent of the war, he ranks among the conflict's most critical poetic voices. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War. Many of these poems were written in the hospital while Sassoon recovered from wounds he received in battle. Their violence and graphic detail shocked readers, impressing upon them the horrors of trench warfare and the foot soldier's weariness of the never-ending struggle. "The dynamic quality of his war poems," observed the Times Literary Supplement, "was due to the intensity of feeling which underlay their cynicism." More than 80 of Sassoon's moving works are featured in this volume, including "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," and "Base Details."
The first English soldier-poet to achieve notoriety as an opponent of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) ranks alongside Wilfred Owen as one of the most critical poetic voices of the Great War. A literary dilettante before his experiences in the trenches, Sassoon went on to write the acclaimed Sherston novels, a trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies.
AbsolutionBrothersThe Dragon and the UndyingFranceTo VictoryWhen I'm among a Blaze of Lights …GolgothaA Mystic as SoldierThe KissThe RedeemerA Subaltern"In the Pink"A Working PartyA Whispered Tale"Blighters"At CarnoyTo His Dead BodyTwo Hundred Years After"They"Stand-to: Good Friday MorningThe One-Legged ManEnemiesThe Tombstone-MakerArms and the ManDied of WoundsThe HeroStretcher CaseConscriptsThe RoadSecret MusicHauntedBefore the BattleThe Death-BedThe Last MeetingA Letter HomePrelude: The TroopsCounter-AttackThe Rear-GuardWirersAttackDreamersHow to DieThe EffectTwelve Months AfterThe FathersBase DetailsLamentationsDoes It Matter?Fight to a FinishEditorial ImpressionsSuicide in the TrenchesGlory of WomenTheir FrailtyThe Hawthorn TreeThe InvestitureTrench DutyBreak of DayTo Any Dead OfficerSick LeaveBanishmentSong-Books of the WarThrushesAutumnInvocationRepression of War ExperienceThe TriumphSurvivorsJoy-BellsRemorseDead MusiciansThe DreamIn BarracksTogetherBattalion ReliefThe Dug-OutI Stood With the DeadIn an Underground Dressing-StationAtrocitiesReturn of the HeroesConcert PartyNight on the ConvoyReconciliationMemorial TabletAftermathEveryone SangMemoryDevotion to Duty
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.9.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Dover Thrift Editions | Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Schlagworte | anti-war poetry • armistice • Book of Poetry • british poets • Collection of poems • combat • critical of great war • engaging • England • english poet • english soldier • english soldier poet • epigrammatic and satirical poetry • first english soldier poet • firsthand accounts • graphic detail • Great War • horrors of trench warfare • Humanity • intense • intense emotion • lest we forget • november 11 poetry • Poetry • Poetry and Verse • poetry for pacificism • Remembrance Day • remembrance day poetry • touching • trench war • trench war literature • Violence • Wilfred Owen • World War I • wwi • WWI classics • WWI literature • WWI poems • wwi poets |
| ISBN-10 | 0-486-83484-0 / 0486834840 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-486-83484-9 / 9780486834849 |
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