The Poetry of World War One
Written by Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke and
Narrated by Lucy Scott and Barnaby Edwards
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In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse. These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue.
The full list of poets included in this collection are: Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John.
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as ‘shell-shocked’ to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades.
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