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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Teaching plan | Handout for teachers | |
| 32 | 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 |
| 33 | "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 |
| 34 | 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 |
| 35 | 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 |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | SHEER: Setting Wilfred Owen to Music | "I can find no word to qualify my experiences except the word SHEER... It passed the limits of my… | Tim Watts |
| 40 | "Smile, Smile, Smile": Wilfred Owen and the Politicians | Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile, smile, smile... One of the most famous songs… | Douglas Kerr |