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| Genre/Form: | Poetry Translations into English |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jon Silkin |
| ISBN: | 0140422552 9780140422559 |
| OCLC Number: | 8383241 |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
| Description: | 282 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Thomas Hardy / Channel Firing -- Drummer Hodge -- Rupert Brooke / From 1914 - IV. The Dead -- V. The Soldier -- Julian Grenfell / Into Battle -- John McCrae / In Flanders Fields -- Alan Seeger / Rendezvous -- Charles Hamilton Sorley / 'All the hills and vales along' -- Two Sonnets -- 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' -- Edward Thomas / A Private -- Man and Dog -- The Owl -- In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) -- Fifty Faggots -- This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong -- Rain -- Roads -- February Afternoon -- The Cherry Trees -- Gone, Gone Again -- Edmund Blunden / Two Voices -- Preparations for Victory -- Come On, My Lucky Lads -- The Zonnebeke Road -- Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July, 1917 -- Third Ypres -- Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm -- La Quinque Rue -- The Ancre at Hamel: Afterwards -- 1916 seen from 1921 -- Report on Experience -- The Midnight Skaters -- Ivor Gurney / To His Love -- The Silent One -- The Bohemians -- Butchers and Tombs -- War Books -- Strange Hells -- Robert Graves / To Robert Nichols -- Recalling War -- Siegfried Sasson / A Working Party -- 'The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still' -- The Death-Bed -- Prelude: The Troops -- Counter-attack -- Base Details -- Lamentations -- Does it Matter? -- Glory of Women -- Repression of War Experience -- Rudyard Kipling / Epitaphs of the War (1914-18) -- A Servant -- A Son -- The Coward -- Pelicans in the Wilderness (A Grave near Halfa) -- The Refined Man -- Common Form -- A Drifter off Tarentum -- Gethsemane (1914-18) -- Edgell Rickword / The Soldier Addresses his Body -- Winter Warfare -- E.E. Cummings / 'My sweet old etcetera' -- Richard Aldington / Field Manoeuvres -- Outpost Duty -- In the Trenches -- Trench Idyll -- Resentmant -- Ford Madox Ford / From 'Antwerp' -- That Exploit of Yours -- F.S. Flint / Lament -- T.E.Hulme / Trenches: St. Eloi -- Herbert Read / The Happy Warrior -- The End of a War -- Argument -- Meditation of a Dying German Officer -- Dialogue between the Body and the Soul of the Murdered Girl -- Meditation of the Waking English Officer -- A short Poem for Armistice Day -- David Jones / From In Parenthesis, Part 7 -- Harold Monro / From 'Youth in Arms' -- IV. Carrion -- John Peale Bishop / In the Dordogne -- Frederic Manning / Grotesque -- Wilfred Owen / Exposure -- The Dead-Beat -- Dulce Et Decorum Est -- Anthem for Doomed Youth -- Disabled -- Miners -- Apologia Pro Peomate Meo -- The Show -- Insensibility --A Terre -- From 'Wild with All Regrets' -- The Send-Off -- Mental Cases -- Futility -- Strange Meeting -- The Sentry -- Smile, Smile, Smile -- Spring Offensive -- D.H. Lawrence / Song of a Man who Has Come Through -- Isaac Rosenberg / On Receiving News of the War -- From Moses -- Marching (As Seen from the Left File) -- August 1914 -- Break of Day in the Trenches -- 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth' -- Louse Hunting -- Returning, We Hear the Larks -- Dead Man's Dump -- Daughters of War -- From the Amulet -- The Tower of Skulls -- From The Unicorn -- Soldier: Twentieth Century -- Girl to Soldier on Leave -- The Burning of the Temple -- The Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Hordes -- Georg Heym / War -- 'Why do you visit men, white moths, so often?' -- George Trakl / Trumpets -- Night -- Dejection -- In the East -- Lament -- Grodek -- Alfred Lichtenstein / Leaving for the Front -- Ernst Stadler / Decampment -- Wilhelm Klemm / Clearing-Station -- Clearing Station -- August Stramm / Guard-Duty -- Battlefield -- Albert Ehrenstein / The Poet and War - Anton Schnack / Nocturnal Landscape -- Yvan Goll / From Requiem for the Dead of Europe -- Recitative (I) -- Recitative (VIII) -- Guillaume Apollinaire / Shadow -- The Sighs of the Gunner from Dakar -- Charles Vildrac / Relief -- Rene Arcos / The Dead -- Guiseppe Ungaretti / Agony -- Vigil -- Brothers -- I am a Creature -- Rivers -- San Martino del Carso -- Italy -- No More Crying Out -- Eugenio Montale / Thrust and Riposte -- Aleksandr Blok / The Kite -- Anna Akhmatova / July 1914 -- Osip Mandelstam / Petropolis -- Marina Tsvetayeva / 'A white low sun' -- Postcript. |
| Series Title: | The Penguin poets |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Jon Silkin. |
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