The First World War saw an outburst of poetic creativity unmatched in European history. Fueled by bitter anger at a war that destroyed the comfortable world of Victorian prosperity and complacency, ...
Odesa is to Ukraine as New York City is to the United States: a port city, a center of commerce and a place where languages, cultures and traditions collide, then meld into an instantly recognizable ...
The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. -- War is hell; its horrors brought to light in literature, art and music. Usually portrayed as filled with fire and brimstone, hell can also be a cold, wet and very muddy ...
"It is sixteen British soldier poets whose work is commemorated in The Grolier Club exhibition." -- Preface. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...
In Lyudmyla Khersonska’s 2022 poem “War. Day 1,” a woman wearing “cheery pajamas” wakes up to an uninvited guest outside her door: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “In the morning, rockets ...
Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...
AS PART of the interest in war poetry, Richard Eberhart and Selden Rodman have compiled a conscientious little anthology (200 pages) to represent “the continuity of the various reactions to war” of ...
Lindsey Hilsum is an award-winning correspondent with Britain’s Channel 4 News who has contributed to the News Hour with reports from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and more. Her new book, "I ...
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