The new Oxford book of war poetry /

The new Oxford book of war poetry / chosen and edited by Jon Stallworthy.

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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars...

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Other Authors: Stallworthy, Jon (Editor)
Other title:Oxford book of war poetry.
War poetry.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:[New edition]
Subjects:
War poetry.
War and society.
Table of Contents:
  • The Bible : from the Book of Exodus
  • From The Second Book of Samuel
  • Homer (c.900 BC) : from The Iliad
  • Simonides (c.556-c.468 BC) : Thermopylae
  • Anonymous (4th century BC) : Hymn to The Fallen
  • Virgil (70-19 BC) : from The Aeneid
  • Horace (65-8BC) : from The Odes
  • Aneirin (6th century) : from The Gododdin
  • Rihaku (8th century) : Lament of the Frontier Guard
  • Anonymous (8th century) : The Finnesburh Fragment
  • Anonymous (10th century) : The Battle of Brunanburh
  • Anonymous (11th century) :The Battle of Maldon
  • Anonymous (12th century) : from The Song of Roland
  • Anonymous (12th century) :The Lament of Maev Leith-Dherg
  • Miroslav Holub (1923-1988) :The Fly
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) : from The Knight's Tale
  • Michael Drayton (1563-1631) : To the Cambro-Britons, and their harp, his Ballad of Agincourt
  • Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) : from Astrophel, A Pastoral Elegie Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney
  • Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) : from The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) : 'Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead'
  • George Gascoigne (?1525-1577) : from The Fruits of War
  • George Peele (?1558-1596) : Farewell to Arms
  • John Donne (1572-1631) : A Burnt Ship
  • Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) : The Soldier Going to the Field
  • Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) : To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
  • Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) : An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
  • John Milton (1608-1674) : On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ; from Paradise Lost
  • Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706) : Song : Written at Sea in the First Dutch War, the night before an Engagement
  • John Dryden (1631-1700) : from Annus Mirabilis
  • Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) : from The Spanish Descent
  • Joseph Addison (1672-1719) : from The Campaign : A Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough
  • Robert Southey (1774-1843) :The Battle of Blenheim
  • James Thomson (1700-1748) : Rule, Britania! Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) : from The Vanity of Human Wishes.
  • John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783) : The Drum
  • Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) : Ye Mariners of England ; Hohenlinden
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1850) : Old Man Travelling ; 'It is not to be thought of that the flood' ; To the Men of Kent ; November, 1806
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) : from The Revolt of Islam
  • Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) : The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
  • Joel Barlow (1754-1812) : Advice to a Raven in Russia
  • Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) : The Year 1812
  • Victor Hugo (1802-1885) : Russia 1812
  • Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) : At Vshchizh
  • Robert Browning (1812-1889) : Incident of the French Camp
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : from The Dynasts
  • George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : The Destruction of Sennacherib ; from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ; from Don Juan ; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) : from Horatius
  • William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) : from Edinburgh after Flodden
  • Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) : from Sohrab and Rustum
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : The Revenge ; The Charge of the Light Brigade ; from Maud
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) : The Due of the Dead
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Concord Hymn
  • Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : Beat! Beat! Drums! ; Come up from the Fields Father ; Virgil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night ; The Wound-Dresser ; Reconciliation
  • Herman Melville (1819-1891) : The Portent ; Ball's Bluff ; Shiloh ; The College Colonel
  • Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : 'My Portion is Defeat--today--' ; 'My Triumph lasted till the Drums'
  • Stephen Crane (1871-1900) : 'Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind'
  • James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) : from Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
  • Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) : The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
  • Allen Tate (1889-1979) : Ode to the Confederate Dead
  • Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) : Last evening
  • Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) : from Eighteen-Seventy
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Arithmetic on the Frontier ; Tommy
  • Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) : He Fell among Thieves ; Vitaï Lampada
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Embarcation ; The Colonel's Soliloquy ; A Christmas Ghost-Story ; Drummer Hodge ; A Wife in London ; The Man He Killed
  • A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : 'On the idle hill of summer' : 'Soldier from the wars returning' ; Grenadier ; Lancer ; Astronomy
  • T.W.H. Crosland (1865-1924) : Slain
  • Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) : War
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Bridge-Guard in the Karroo : The Dykes
  • Herbert Asquith (1881-1947) : The Volunteer
  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Men Who March Away ; In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'
  • Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) : Peace ; The Dead ; The Soldier
  • Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) : Breakfast
  • Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1888-1917) : 'I saw a man this morning'
  • Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) : Into Battle
  • John McCrae (1872-1918) : In Flanders Fields
  • T.P. Cameron Wilson (1889-1918) : Magpies in Picardy
  • Charles Sorley (1895-1915) : 'All the hills and vales along' ; 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'
  • A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
  • Hugh MacDiardmid (1892-1978) : Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
  • Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) : Grass
  • Robert Frost (1874-1963) : Range-Finding
  • Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : The Death of a Soldier
  • Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) : Calligram, 15 May 1915
  • Benjamin Péret (1899-1959) : Little Song of the Maimed
  • W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) : On Being Asked for a War Poem ; Sixteen Dead Men ; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ; Reprisals ; The Second Coming
  • Robert W. Service (1874-1958) : Only a Boche ; Tipperary Days
  • Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) : The Redeemer ; Christ and the Soldier ; 'They' ; The Hero ; The General ; Glory of Women ; Everyone Sang.
  • Edward Thomas (1878-1917) : In Memorian (Easter 1915) ; The Cherry Trees ; Rain ; As the team's head brass
  • Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) : To His Love ; Ballad of the Three Spectres ; First Time In ; The Silent One
  • Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) : On Receiving News of the War ; August 1914 ; Break of Day in the Trenches ; Dead Man's Dump ; Returning, We Hear the Larks
  • Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) : Anthem for Doomed Youth ; Dulce Et Decorum Est ; Exposure ; Insensibility ; The Send-Off ; Futility ; Strange Meeting ; The Sentry ; Spring Offensive
  • Robert Graves (1895-1985) : The Dead Fox hunter ; Sergeant-Major Money ; The Legion ; Recalling War ; The Persian Version
  • Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
  • Two Voices ; The Zonnebeke Road ; Vlamertinghe : Passing the Château, July 1917 ; Report on Experience ; 1916 seen from 1921
  • Richard Aldington (1892-1962) : Battlefield
  • Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) : Winter Warfare ; Trench Poets
  • E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) : 'Me sweet old etcetera' ; 'Next to of course God America I' ; 'I sing of Olaf glad and big'
  • John Peale Bishop (1892-1944) : In the Dordogne
  • David Jones (1895-1974) : from In Parenthesis
  • Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) : For the Fallen
  • Ezra Pound (1885-1972) : from Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
  • T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) : Triumphal March
  • G.K. Chesterson (1874-1936) : Elegy in a Country Churchyard
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Mesopotamia 1917 ; from Epitaphs of the War 1914-18
  • Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977) : Subalterns
  • May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) : August 1914 ; Rouen ; 'After the War'
  • Philip Larkin (1922-1985) : MCMXIV
  • Vernon Scannell (1922-1985) : The Great War
  • Ted Hughes (1930-1998) : Six Young Men ; Platform One
  • Douglas Dunn (1942- ) : War Blinded
  • Michael Longley (1939- ) : Wounds
  • Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : from Autumn Journal
  • John Cornford (1915-1936) : A Letter from Aragon ; Full Moon at Tierz : Before the Storming of Huesca ; To Margot Heinemann
  • George Orwell (1903-1950) : 'The Italian soldier shook my hand'
  • Anonymous : 'Eyes of men running, falling, screaming'
  • Laurie Lee (1914-1997) : A Moment of War
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) : Benicasim
  • W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : Spain 1937.
  • Stephen Spender (1909-1995) : Two Armies ; Ultima Ratio Regum
  • Bernard Spencer (1909-1963) : A Thousand Killed
  • Herbert Read (1893-1968) : To a Conscript of 1940
  • Louis Aragon (1897-1983) : The Lilacs of the Roses
  • C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) : The Stand-To ; Where are the War Poets?
  • David Gascoyne (1916-2001) : Ecce Homo ; Spring MCMXL
  • Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) : A book in the Ruins
  • Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) : Still Falls the Rain
  • H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : from The Walls Do Not Fall
  • Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : The Streets of Laredo
  • R.N. Currey (1907-2001) : Unseen Fire
  • Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) : Prize for Good Conduct
  • Henry Reed (1914-1986) : Lessons of the War
  • Alun Lewis (1915-1944) : All day it has rained ... ; Dawn on the East Coast ; Goodbye ; Song
  • Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) : from The Foreign Gate ; Timoshenko ; from The Wilderness
  • John Manifold (1915-1985) : The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF
  • Keith Douglas (1920-1944) : John Anderson ; Gallantry ; Vergissmeinnicht ; Aristocrats
  • John Jarmain (1911-1944) : El Alamein
  • Norman Cameron (1905-1953) : Green, Green is El Aghir
  • F.T. Prince (1912-2003) : Soldiers Bathing
  • Roy Fuller (1912-1991) : The Middle of a War
  • Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) : Careless Love
  • Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : In Idstrust of Merits
  • Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) : The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
  • Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) : Eighth Air Force ; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunn ; A Camp in the Prussian Forest ; A Front
  • W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) : 'After Experience Taught Me ... ' ; Returned to Frisco, 1946
  • Louis Simpson (1923-2012) : Carentan O Carentan ; Memories of a Lost War ; The Battle ; The Heroes
  • Richard Wilbur (1921- ) ; First Snow in Alsace ; Terza Rima
  • Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) : Rank
  • Vernon Scannell (1922-2007) : Walking Wounded
  • Paul Dehn (1912-1976) : St Aubin D'Aubigné
  • Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : The hand that signed the paper
  • James Dickey (1923-1997) : The Firebombing
  • Ephim Fogel (1920-1992) : Shipment to Maidanek
  • W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : from Sonnets from China
  • Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) : 'More Light! More Light!' ; The Book of Yolek
  • Thom Gunn (1929-2004) : Claus Von Stauffenberg
  • Charles Causley (1917-2003) : Armistice Day ; At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux.
  • Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) : In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
  • Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) : The War in the Air ; Redeployment
  • Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) : Memorial Rain
  • John Pudney (1909-1977) : For Johnny
  • James Tate (1943- ) : The Lost Pilot
  • George MacBeth (1932-1992) : The Land-Mine
  • Alan Ross (1922-2001) : Off Brighton Pier
  • Andrew Motion (1952- ) : Now Then
  • Geoffrey Hill (1932) : September Song
  • W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : The Shield of Achilles
  • Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) : I Am Goya
  • Robert Lowell (1917-1977) : Fall 1961 ; For the Union Dead
  • Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : A Vow
  • Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : What Were They Like?
  • Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) : To Whom It May Concern
  • Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) : Facing It ; Starlight Scope Myopia
  • W.D. Ehrhart (1948- ) : Beautiful Wreckage
  • Bruce Weigl (1949- ) : Song of Napalm
  • John Balaban (1943- ) : After Our War ; In Celebration of Spring
  • Ngo Vinh Long (1944- ) : Untitled
  • James Fenton (1949- ) : Dead Soldiers
  • Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) : Requiem for the Croppies ; Whatever You Say Say Nothing ; The Strand at Lough Beg
  • Carolyn Forché (1951- ) : The Colonel
  • David Harsent (1942- ) : Snapshots (I) ; The Piss-pail
  • Peter Wyton (1944- ) : Unmentioned in Dispatches
  • Richard Wilbur (1921- ) : Advice to a Prophet
  • William Stafford (1914-1993) : At the Bomb Testing Site
  • Peter Porter (1929-2010) : Your Attention Please.

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