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German author Hans Herbert Grimm wrote a novel Schlump in 1928 which was published anonymously due to its satirical and anti-war tone, loosely based on the author's own experiences as a military policeman in German-occupied France during WW1. The novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and Grimm was not credited as the author until 2013.
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war ...
The Battle of Dorking (1871) established the genre of invasion literature. (Cover of the 1914 edition) Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre [1]) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918).
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen.
S. Le Sang noir; Schlump (novel) The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door; The Secret Battle; The Silver Donkey; The Singing Tree; A Small Country; The Sojourn; A Soldier of the Great War
Instead of Violence: Writings by the Great Advocates of Peace and Nonviolence throughout History – edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Shaffer Weinberg, 1963 [19] [36] The Pacifist Conscience – edited by Peter Mayer, 1966 [19] Peace is the Way: writings on nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation – edited by Walter Wink [37]
Catherine Reilly has closely studied women's literature from World War I and its resulting impact on the relationship between gender, class, and society. Reilly's 1981 anthology, Scars Upon my Heart : Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War , is the first work strictly dedicated to examining women's poetry and prose from World War I.