| Poets of the First World War |
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2004, £9.99, ISBN 1-87-1551-79-X
Writing from a poet’s perspective, John Greening here considers some neglected names from the Great War – Wilfrid Gibson, Laurence Binyon, Ivor Gurney, Charles Sorley – while reassessing the work of established figures such as Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Thomas, Blunden and Graves. Each chapter provides a biographical summary and close analysis of the verse. There is a discussion, too, of other key poems from the period. including the contribution made by women writers. The study closes with a chapter on the influence of the war on later poets The Lattermath
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