Product Description

Concentrating on the classic poems by the greatest poets of World War One, this collection contains 250 poems by 80 poets. It includes such enduringly popular poems of the war as Brooke's sonnets and McCrae's "In Flanders Fields". There are also examples of the once hugely popular poems which were written as propaganda. Historical and biographical background material, extracts from diaries, personal letters and autobiographies illuminate the poetry. Poets featured include Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Thomas, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Rose Macauley, Eleanor Farjeon, D.H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Edmund Blunden, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Lawrence Binyon, John McCrae, Ivor Gurney, John Oxenham, Arthur Graeme West and Rupert Brooke.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66690 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 410 pages

Review
Enthusiastic comments "Read this compelling book" - Rex Andrews in The Friend. "Absolutely wonderful" - Pat Davidson, Poetry Buyer, Waterstones, Worcester. "Remarkable . . . absorbing . . . stimulating . . . Do buy it," - Ronald Mallone in Day by Day A valuable resource for teachers, advanced students, and libraries.

From the Publisher
Minds at War , the largest anthology of First World W poetry
Minds at War is the largest anthology of poetry of the First World War - 250 poems by 80 poets, concentrating on the classic war poets but including significant other poetry. 410 pages (9"x6") paperback.

Minds at War includes:

the great classic poems and poets of the war, examples of the war's most popular and propagandist verse (some of this now seen in print for the first time since the war), poetry by women poets (strongly featured), and poetry of the home front, plus historical and biographical background material. Extracts from diaries, personal letters and autobiographies of poets and contemporaries illuminate the poetry.

The poems people want to read

Classic poets include: Wilfred Owen (generally regarded as the greatest of the war poets writing in English), Siegfried Sassoon (unrivalled for his honest record of his changing views and feelings), Edward Thomas, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Edmund Blunden, Rose Macaulay, Eleanor Farjeon, Walter de la Mare, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy, Ivor Gurney, Charles Sorley, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke

Customer Reviews

Highly representative collection
Minds at War, a collection which lives up exactly to its title, merits every possible attention. For the serious student or the general reader of the literature of this world clash, the book offers as wide a choice from the literary heritage of the Great War as one may hope for. It supplements this with a wealth of background information to the conflict, be it historical or biographical. Apart from poetry, it also contains diaries and letters, two forms which add to the diversity in the number of personal approaches the poetry offers in itself.
Two additional features of this highly interesting book consist in a substantial selection of wome's war poems, a line of approach which has remained underestimated for far too long, and an interesting selection of propagandist verse; the latter sheds a specific light on the degree to which this war (and indeed, any wars) was started as a war of opposing minds. This rich and general anthology certainly deserves its place among the literary collections on its subject.