Reviews

Poems of the Great War 1914-1918 by Siegried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, Herbert Read, Edmund Blunden, Frederic Manning, John McCrae, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy, May Wedderburn Cannan, Edgell Rickword, Ford Madox Ford, Ivor Gurney, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Alice Meynell, Rupert Brooke, Margaret Cole

stefische's review

4.0

4,5, er staan echt een paar bangers in

enya_ce's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

Some of the poems are beautiful, some of them I struggled to understand, though it's probably because English is not my first language.
I really enjoyed it, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

laura_jager's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

hayley_loves_books's review

4.0

I’ve rounded this one up to four stars as had I not just read a whole collection of Wilfred Owen this is what I would have rated it. This is a collection of poems from WW1. Heartbreaking and grim they are very moving. I found a few other poems that I liked but the book heavily features poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. I liked all of Sassoon’s work. A few poems were written by women but not many.

rudyb's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

balancinghistorybooks's review

5.0

A wonderful collection, if rather sparse with regard to female poets. Incredibly moving.