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A review by laurenjpegler
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
3.0
3.5 stars
I picked up this little collection of War Poetry when I visited the Imperial War Museum in Manchester last year. I wanted to read it around Remembrance Day, but forgot to bring it to uni with me. I've only just gotten round to reading it, but it was such a lovely and haunting read.
Inside this collection you will find an array of World War I poets, such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, and so on. There's only two female poets, I think, which I don't know how I feel about. Yes, the war was predominantly men, but there were also women on the frontline (nurses, drivers, etc.). However, it's not something that will determine my rating, considering the context.
The poems were all hauntingly beautiful, and made you feel an abundance of emotions. Some were sarcastic, some were witty, some were brutal, and some were just downright sad. But they were a pleasure to read, and captured such a turbulent time in such beautiful writing and prose. I would definitely recommend this! I only rated it down for two reasons: 1) poetry is my favourite thing to read at times, and I sped through this because I wanted to finished it before I went away, and 2) some of the poems weren't that memorable (but a lot of them were, so half-and-half really).
I picked up this little collection of War Poetry when I visited the Imperial War Museum in Manchester last year. I wanted to read it around Remembrance Day, but forgot to bring it to uni with me. I've only just gotten round to reading it, but it was such a lovely and haunting read.
Inside this collection you will find an array of World War I poets, such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, and so on. There's only two female poets, I think, which I don't know how I feel about. Yes, the war was predominantly men, but there were also women on the frontline (nurses, drivers, etc.). However, it's not something that will determine my rating, considering the context.
The poems were all hauntingly beautiful, and made you feel an abundance of emotions. Some were sarcastic, some were witty, some were brutal, and some were just downright sad. But they were a pleasure to read, and captured such a turbulent time in such beautiful writing and prose. I would definitely recommend this! I only rated it down for two reasons: 1) poetry is my favourite thing to read at times, and I sped through this because I wanted to finished it before I went away, and 2) some of the poems weren't that memorable (but a lot of them were, so half-and-half really).