Poems From The Second World War

Author : Gaby Morgan
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Children's poetry, English
ISBN : 1509838880

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Poems from the Second World War by Gaby Morgan Pdf

Poems From the Second World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts, and family and friends who experienced WWII from different standpoints. The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect and display material relating to World War I, which was still being fought. Today IWM is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from World War I to the present. They seek to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and wartime experience.

Author : Herbert Engelhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578412071

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World War II Poetry by Herbert Engelhardt Pdf

A collection of short poems about the author's time as a soldier in World War II. The author was born in New Jersey in 1925 and has lived in New York's Greenwich Village since 1952. He started writing poetry at age 75.

Author : L. Shires
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349178643

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British Poetry of the Second World War by L. Shires Pdf

Author : Harvey Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056477402

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Poets of World War II by Harvey Shapiro Pdf

Acclaimed poet and World War II veteran Shapiro's pathbreaking gathering of work by more than 60 poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.

Author : Gaby Morgan
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : War poetry
ISBN : 1447248643

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Poems from the First World War by Gaby Morgan Pdf

Collection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand - from soldiers to nurses, families and sweethearts. Themes range from early excitement, patriotism, bravery, friendship and loyalty to heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the damaging effects of the war were revealed. Poets include Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, and many more.

Author : Howard Nemerov
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788728365731

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War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now by Howard Nemerov Pdf

Widely considered to be among his best works, ‘War Stories’ is a collection of poems detailing Nemerov’s observations and personal experiences of the Second World War. From the grand, sweeping reflections of ‘The War in the Heavens’ to the haunting verses of ‘The War in the Streets,’ this anthology is as pertinent now as it was when it was first published. A superb book for those with an interest in World War II, or those who want to see a different side to this usually-satirical poet. Howard Nemerov (1920 – 1991) was an American novelist and poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. His novels are characterised by the use of self-deprecating wit and an ongoing sense of irony. While his books tended to satirise 20th Century American life, his poems often focussed on the beauty and innocence of nature. In addition, Nemerov also worked as a scriptwriter, most notably on the film, ‘Tall Story,’ starring Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda.

Author : Hugh Haughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571382606

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Second World War Poems by Hugh Haughton Pdf

The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan - and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets - Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova - exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.

Author : Paul O'Prey
Publisher : Imperial War Museum
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912423323

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First World War Poems from the Front by Paul O'Prey Pdf

From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness. This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.

Author : Desmond Graham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446476338

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Poetry Of The Second World War by Desmond Graham Pdf

Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature. In its chorus of haunting poetic voices, over a hundred of the most articulate minds of their generation record the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending consequences. In keeping with its subject, it has an international scope, with poems from over twenty countries, including Japan, Australia, Europe, America and Russia; poems in which human responses echo each other across boundaries of culture and state. Auden, Brecht, Stevie Smith, Primo Levi, Zbigniew Herbert and Anna Akhmatova are set alongside the eloquence of unknown poets. The anthology has been arranged to bring out the chronological and cumulative human experience of the war: pre-war fears, air raids, the boredom, fear and camaraderie of military life; battle, occupation and resistance; surviving and the aftermath. Here at last, are the poems of the Holocaust, the Blitz, Hiroshima; of soldiers, refugees and disrupted lives. What emerges is a poetry capable of conveying the vast and terrible sweep of war.

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429995924

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Bomber County by Daniel Swift Pdf

In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.

Author : Charles Reznikoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106008724798

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By the Well of Living & Seeing by Charles Reznikoff Pdf

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Author : Edith Wharton,Wilfred Owen,Rupert Brooke,Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781788880190

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World War I Poetry by Edith Wharton,Wilfred Owen,Rupert Brooke,Siegfried Sassoon Pdf

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.

Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191642050

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Poetry of the First World War by Tim Kendall Pdf

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.

Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : War poetry
ISBN : 0192825844

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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy Pdf

Author : Anne Powell
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106015483560

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Shadows of War by Anne Powell Pdf

On the thr anniversary of World War II, this book presents the war's women poets and their poetry - some famous like Deionize Levertov, Vita SackvilleWest, Dorothy Serres, Edith Sitwell, and Barbara Cartland, others forgotten. As the poets and their poetry unfold chronologically, with a section for each year of the war, readers can see how feelings changed, optimism grew to pessimism and then back again.