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The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I. It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
"Ode to War" is a satirical poem on war written in 1794 by Reverend John Whitehouse of St. John's College, Cambridge. It is part of the work Odes Moral and Descriptive . [ 1 ]
Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham. [6] His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker. [10] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, Tennessee. [6]
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I. [1] A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in English, it was backed up by strong biographical research on the poets included. Those ...
The Reckoning is a best-selling novel by John Grisham. [1] In addition to Grisham's typical legal thriller , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the book was also characterized by reviewers as "a murder mystery , a courtroom drama , a family saga , a coming-of-age story ," [ 3 ] "a period piece ", [ 3 ] and a war novel .
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Brooke wrote the five poems that were published in 1914 in the autumn after the outbreak of the First World War when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division. Also in this collection is 'The Soldier', one of Brooke's most famous poems, though 'The Dead' (IV) was one of his personal favourites. The poems were published in New Numbers before being ...