A Deep Cry. First World War Soldier-Poets Killed In France And Flanders

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Publisher Place: Stroud
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: Reprint

Description: 470 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The lives, deaths, poetry, diaries and extracts from letters of sixty-six soldier-poets are brought together in this limited edition of Anne Powells unique anthology; a fitting commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. These poems are not simply the works of well-known names such as Wilfred Owen - though they are represented - they have been painstakingly collected from a multitude of sources, and the relative obscurity of some of the voices makes the message all the more moving. Moreover, all but five of these soldiers lie within forty-five miles of Arras. Their deaths are described here in chronological order, with an account of each mans last battle. This in itself provides a revealing gradual change in the poetry from early na¯ve patriotism to despair about the human race and the bitterness of Dulce et Decorum Est.

ISBN: 9780750919876