A deep cry : soldier-poets killed on the Western front

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Label

A deep cry : soldier-poets killed on the Western front

Title remainder

soldier-poets killed on the Western front

Statement of responsibility

edited by Anne Powell

Contributor

• Powell, Anne, 1934-

Editor

• Powell, Anne, 1934-

Subject

• Biography & non-fiction prose
• English
• European history
• First World War
• Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
• Literary studies: poetry & poets
• Literature
• Poetry
• Poetry anthologies (various poets)
• Soldiers -- Great Britain
• United Kingdom, Great Britain
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry
• c 1910 to c 1919

Genre

• Poetry

Language

eng

Summary

Arranged by dates of death, this book gives the short life-and-death stories of sixty-six British poets killed in Flanders fields, with poems, letters and diaries from each poet.

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

821.91209358403

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PR605.W65

Literary form

poetry

Summary expansion

The lives, deaths, poetry, diaries and extracts from letters of sixty-six soldier-poets are brought together in this limited edition of Anne Powell's unique anthology; a fitting commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. These poems are not simply the works of well-known names such as Wilfred Owen - though they are represented - they have been painstakingly collected from a multitude of sources, and the relative obscurity of some of the voices makes the message all the more moving. Moreover, all but five of these soldiers lie within forty-five miles of Arras. Their deaths are described here in chronological order, with an account of each man's last battle. This in itself provides a revealing gradual change in the poetry from early nave patriotism to despair about the human race and the bitterness of `Dulce et Decorum Est'