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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 ".
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 ...
Literally, "moment of excellence", aristeiai often coincide with battleground slaughter, and feature one warrior who dominates the battle. [5]Aristeiai abound in Homer's Iliad, [6] the peak being Achilles' aristeia in Books 20–22 where he almost single-handedly routs the Trojan army and then goes on to kill its champion Hector.
The book ends with two versions of Tolkien's "The Lay of Beowulf". The former, subtitled "Beowulf and Grendel", is a poem or song [5] of seven eight-line stanzas about Beowulf's victory over Grendel. The latter is a poem of fifteen eight-line stanzas on the same theme; several of the stanzas, including the first and the last, are almost ...
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 ...
Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote evocatively about the battle in his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade". Tennyson's poem, written 2 December and published on 9 December 1854, in The Examiner, praises the brigade ("When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!") while trenchantly mourning the appalling futility of the ...
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"The Death of Beorhtnoth" — an introductory essay concerning the battle and the Old English fragment that inspired Tolkien. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son — the alliterative poem. "Ofermod" — an essay following on from the main work, discussing the meaning of the Old English word ofermod "overconfidence, foolhardiness".