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Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; War (Georg Heym); On the Eastern Front (Georg Trakl); Pleasure in Form (Ernst Stadler); In Despair (August Stramm); Langemark To August Stramm, Georg Trakl, Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym (Langemark); The Train; To Isaac Rosenberg (Dover); The Island A to Z; To Wilfrid Gibson (The Menin Gate); The Hope Valley Line; 11; To John McCrae ('Essex Farm', Yser Canal); To Robert Nichols (France); Feast Day, Melchbourne; To Edmund Blunden (Ypres); Reading John Clare on New Year's Eve; Causeway. |
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To Laurence Binyon (Sanctuary Wood)So it Runs; In Trafalgar Square; To Siegfried Sassoon (Near Bapaume); Yeats Dances; Dropping Slow; Odyssey; To the Sun (After Akhenaten); To Rupert Brooke (Grantchester); Wadi Halfa; Colonial; To Rudyard Kipling (Tyne Cot); Africa; To Julian Grenfell (Sanctuary Wood); Hounslow; Heath Row; Cycle, with Cytologist; Middlesex; To One Who Was With Me (St Julien); To Edward Thomas (Agny); Hiraeth; Eglwys Llangwyfan; Home Office; To Vera Brittain (Louvencourt); Piano; Music Group; Elgar; New World (1937); American Music; Field; The Mounds at Sutton Hoo. |
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Waldo Williams in PerryAldermaston; Summer (Ernst Stadler); Bugles (Georg Trakl); To Charles Sorley (Dunkerque); To Robert Graves (Dover); Grodek (Georg Trakl); Forge House; Kentish; Awre; Note on Akhenaten's. |
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In a sequence of verse letters, John Greening sends dispatches across the decades, looking back over the century since the outbreak of the First World War. He addresses the war poets directly, making connections yet always aware of distance, and explores "Englishness," but also-in his translations from Heym, Trakl, Stadler, and Stramm-provides an alternative perspective. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial just before the start of the Second World War to the security forces' shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat o. |
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1900-1999 |
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English poetry -- 20th century.
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War poetry, English.
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English poetry. |
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War poetry, English. |
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Electronic books. |
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781906188160 : $16.99 |
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1906188165 : $16.99 |
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