Selected Poetry of the First World War by Marcus Clapham

The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his fellow poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and many others - that we do remember. This new anthology will serve as an introduction to the poetry of that great conflict, and the inclusion of a number of rarely anthologised poets, many from the ranks, as well as anonymous poems and songs, serves to bring a quality of freshness to the selection. This 1999 Wordsworth Editions Ltd Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9781853264443 SKU: 1173453 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1173453
Location: Poetry