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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This is a place one can go mad in – Ivor Gurney, Asylum Poet | Ivor Gurney was a First World War poet and a composer of beautiful songs, and orchestral and… | Kate Kennedy |
| 2 | An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen | Wilfred Owen has always been one of my favourite writers to teach, because his poetry is like a… | Lucy Freeland |
| 3 | Wilfred Owen: Resonances | Owen's enduring legacy comes in a variety of shapes and forms, from Benjamin Britten's War Requiem… | Brigitte Friant-Kessler |
| 4 | Owen's influence on Carol Ann Duffy | Carol Ann Duffy's poem "An Unseen" depicts a soldier going off to war, but we don't know which war… | Marcy Tanter |
| 5 | "The Poetry is in the Pity": Wilfred Owen and the Memory of the First World War | A memorial to the poets of the First World War stands in the corner of Westminster Abbey. Inscribed… | Vincent Trott |
| 6 | 4-11 November 1918: Wilfred Owen and armistice Day in Memory and History | In an early preface to his collected war poems, Wilfred Owen wrote of his work that "The subject of… | Alex Nordlund |
| 7 | Wilfred Owen: The '60s Poet | With the centenary of the first Armistice Day - and the centenary of Wilfred Owen's death a week… | Harry Ricketts |
| 8 | Dulce et Decorum Est: Wilfred Owen’s Latin | Wilfred Owen fought hard to learn Latin. He was acutely aware of the importance of the classical… | Elizabeth Vandiver |
| 9 | At the Water’s Edge: Wilfred Owen and Water | By the look of the photograph reproduced in Jon Stallworthy's biography, it was a fairly run-of-the… | Gerald Dawe |
| 10 | Postcard from the Front Lines of Teaching "Dulce et Decorum Est" | Wilfred Owen is the most famous of the World War One soldier-poets, and "Dulce et Decorum Est" is… | Eleanor Mary Boudreau |