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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."
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 ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Julian Grenfell: 1906 WW1 war poet. Biography 1976 by Nicholas Mosley (Balliol 1946) DSO "Into Battle" 1915. 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. [2]: 111 Patrick Shaw-Stewart: 1906 WW1 war poet "Achilles in the Trench"
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]
poem XLVI: 'The Death of the Zeppelin' by O. – refers to the defence mounted against the Zeppelins; poem XLVII: 'The Last Salute' by Robert Nichols – refers to the death of the Grenfell brothers; poem XLIX: 'R. B.' by Aubrey Herbert – a tribute to Rupert Brooke; poem LII: 'Goliath and David' by Robert Graves – a tribute to David Thomas ...
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.