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The Pentrich Rising was an armed uprising around the village of Pentrich, Derbyshire, England, on the night of 9–10 June 1817.While much of the planning took place in Pentrich, two of the three ringleaders were from South Wingfield and the other was from Sutton in Ashfield; it started from Hunt's Barn in South Wingfield, and the only person killed died in Wingfield Park.
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
The War Within (Shadows Fall album), 2004; The War Within, a 1994 book by Tom Wells on America's internal battle over the war in Vietnam; The War Within (Woodward book), a book by Bob Woodward on the Bush Administration; The War Within (Matas book), a fictional book by Carol Matas regarding the issues of the America Civil War and slavery; The ...
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 ...
Mason's poem "The Wall Within" was read at the 1984 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. [1] and has the distinction of being the only American work of poetry on display at the war memorial in Hanoi. The author of four books, his poetry related to his experiences as a captain in the United States Army during the ...
Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 is a collection of poems by Carl Phillips published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The collection won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . [ 1 ] The collection begins with new poems but includes portions of his lyric memoir, Among the Trees . [ 2 ]
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is the first book of poetry of the American author Herman Melville.Published by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1866, the volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Fathers" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American ...
Roland's final poem, which was found in his clothes after his death was "Hedauville". Brittain found the poem unsettling and difficult to fully understand. It seemed as if perhaps Roland was predicting his own death in "Hedauville", and foresaw a different life for Vera, with a new love. [citation needed]