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This comprehensive volume of First World
War poetry is based around the poets recognised as the greatest war poets of
the twentieth century. In addition to the large collection of poems it
contains extracts from poets' letters and diaries, short biographies, and historical
background including statements by politicians, pundits and the press. With
contemporary photographs and cartoons. It is the largest anthology of First
World War poetry available. Minds
at War.
Out in the Dark,
the best anthology of First World War poetry for students. A substantial collection
of the great and significant poems of the war. Excellent for AQA A level. It
contains historical and social background information and explanatory notes
on the unusual vocabulary of the war. With contemporary photographs and
drawings.
Both
books include many of the most admired war poems in the English language, verse
written as propaganda, information about the poets (including Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Thomas Hardy, and many others),
their thoughts and experiences, as well as the history of the First World War.
Some of the poems we include are seen in print for the first time since the
war.
Minds at War has greater
depth of insight into the psychological landscape with which the poets tried
to come to terms, more historical information and more poems and poets than
Out in the Dark.
More details and reviews:
Minds at War, Out
in the Dark. |