First World War Poems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571221203 ISBN 13: 9780571221202

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2004

Synopsis

In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light, and extends the selection right through to the present day - so that poems produced by the war give way historically to poems about the war. This mesmerizing book reminds us how the poetry of that time has, more than any art form, come to stand testament to the grief and outrage occasioned by World War I.

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About the Author

Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, is co-founder of the online Poetry Archive, and has written acclaimed biographies of Philip Larkin and John Keats among others. His memoir of childhood, In the Blood, was published in 2006, and its sequel, Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry, appeared alongside Selected Poems: 1977-2022 in 2023. He is Homewood Professor in the Arts at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Baltimore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571221203
• ISBN 13: 9780571221202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Motion Sir Andrew