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(Also see: ' The War, The Great War, The First World War' - blog post by Stuart Lee about how wars earn their name.

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11 ‘On your lips my life is hung’: Robert Graves and War Dr Charles Mundye takes a look at how Robert Graves' experiences and feelings about War that… Charles Mundye
12 Poetry vs. History What place do the poets and their work have in the historical analysis of the War? Dr Stuart Lee… Stuart Lee
13 Georgians and Others Dr Stuart Lee gives a short introduction to the poetry movements that led up to the War. Stuart Lee
14 The Early Poets Dr Alisa Miller looks at the popular poets in the early years of the War and the way that the press… Alisa Miller
15 Poetry of the Empire World War One was a conflict of empire, not of nation. In this lecture Dr Simon Featherstone looks… Simon Featherstone
16 Siegfried Sassoon Meg Crane looks at the war poems of Siegfried Sassoon, framed by the first and last (non-war) poems… Meg Crane
17 Wilfred Owen Professor Jon Stallworthy, editor and biographer of Wilfred Owen, introduces one of the most… Jon Stallworthy
18 Women Poets Dr Jane Potter looks at a range of women poets who wrote during, and in the years that followed,… Jane Potter
19 War Poetry Dr Mark Rawlinson explores the relationship between War and War Poetry using Owen's famous 'Preface… Mark Rawlinson
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