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"Into Battle" is a 1915 war poem by a British First World War subaltern, Julian Grenfell. [1] The poem was published posthumously in The Times after Grenfell fell in 1915. At the time it was as popular as Rupert Brooke 's " The Soldier ".
The Poetry is in the pity." [10] Today Grenfell is most remembered for his poem "Into Battle" written in May 1915, the closing lines read; "The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings."
Into Battle may refer to: Into Battle, a 2001 Australian novel by Garth Nix; Into Battle (play), 2021 play by Hugh Simon; Into Battle, a 1997 historical thriller by the British writer Michael Gilbert "Into Battle" (poem), a 1915 British war poem by Julian Grenfell; Into Battle with the Art of Noise, 1983 debut album by British synthpop band the ...
Into Battle is a stage play written by Hugh Salmon, which received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021. [1] [2] [3] [4]The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War.
May 13 – While English poet Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands a few yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times (London) the day after his death. [7]
His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times the following day. [6] His younger brother Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell is killed in action two months later. c. May – Publication of the first modern book illustrated with wood engravings , Frances Cornford 's Spring Morning , from the Poetry Bookshop , London, has engravings by her cousin ...
Sharon Ouditt, writing of women's role in the war, noted that: "For the nurses it was, like the nun's cross, the badge of their equal sacrifice." In a poem by May Wedderburn Cannan the Red Cross sign is seen to be equivalent to the crossed swords indicating her lover's death in battle: And all you asked of fame Was crossed swords in the Army List,
Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey (born 23 May 1935 [2]), is a Labour hereditary peer, life peer, and former member of the House of Lords [3] known for his strong Europhile views.