First World War
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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.
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |