Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A treasury of war poetry A treasury of war poetry Clarke, George Herbert Poems about World War I, written during the war by a variety of English-speaking men and women. OL16333689W
War poets War poets Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential war poets such as Chinua Achebe, John Balaban, Ch… OL16975938W
Americana collection Americana collection John Jiambalvo This is a book of poetry for those who say poetry's not for them. As easy to engage with as a novel and packed with political and social observation as good as many nonfiction books can offer, Ameri… OL19988570W
Poetry Poetry Wilfred Owen <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/wilfred-owen">Wilfred Owen</a> was a soldier and poet during the second half of the first World War. His poetry, contrary to the propaganda of the time, … OL27292460W
Up the Line to Death Up the Line to Death Edmund Blunden,Brian Gardner,Brian Gardner,Brian Gardner A poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I. A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing … OL2939507W
Stein, Bishop & Rich Stein, Bishop & Rich Margaret Dickie In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three preeminent women writers--Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich--investigating the ways in w… OL3252992W
Radical Visions Radical Visions Vince Gotera *Description from dust jacket:* Although poets have written about warfare since at least the time of Homer, the Vietnam war has struck many observers as being immune to the interpretations of poet… OL4299774W
The mourner's song The mourner's song James Tatum "In The Mourner's Song, James Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the writings of Stephen Crane,… OL4629236W
In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields Linda Granfield Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War. OL527182W
The First World War in Irish poetry The First World War in Irish poetry Jim Haughey "Drawing on the work of over thirty Irish poets whose careers span the twentieth century, from soldier poets like Francis Ledwidge to influential figures like Yeats, Joyce, and Heaney, Jim Haughey's … OL6213616W