Reviews

Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918: an anthology by Edmund Blunden, Brian Gardner

isabel05claire's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.0

_jaybird_'s review

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

carlyjeans's review

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

2.0

carysisamelt's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

3.25

readsbyhope's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Mental illness, War, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Body horror

ireney5's review

5.0

Great resource for WW1 poetry because it includes really obscure poetry that is nearly impossible to find anywhere else. A very valuable collection, organized by theme/chronology, and the biographies of the poets are also very useful considering that some of them are fairly unknown.

Would not recommend if you're looking for the most famous, canonical pieces. Some very well-known poems are here (Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," for example), but you're better off looking at a more mainstream WW1 poetry anthology for those.

undomiel's review

4.0

A beautiful selection of poems, with a thoughtfully chosen preface and epilogue. I especially love how the poems have been grouped to tell the tale of changing views on the war as the anthology progresses.

Overall a very emotive, thought-provoking anthology.