The Poetry of World War I
a web guide to the poetry of World War I from literaryhistory.com
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General Articles on Poetry and World War I
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic99/less3/StartPage.html On the variety of literary responses to World War I. "The First World War or Great War was the first military conflict in history that evoked the widest possible spectrum of literary responses, ranging from enthusiastic patriotic affirmation to disillusioned reductio ad absurdum.""Where Death Becomes Absurd And Life Absurder': Literary Views Of The Great War 1914-1918," by Rolf P. Lessenich in EESE 9/1998
http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/ia/eese/artic23/piep/6_2003.html "'The myth of a lost generation,' Walsh observes, 'is one of the most potent imaginative impulses and orientations in the traditions of American war writing'. The political potency of this myth, however, lies not simply in its 'aura of betrayal' and 'disillusionment,' but most of all in its experimental claim of being the sole depository of truly modern memory.""'Modern Understanding:'Gender and Race Politics in American World War I Writings," by Karsten H.Piep in EESE 6/2003
http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials Award winning online seminar on the poetry of World War I from Oxford University. Sections on Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches;" Introduction to Manuscript Studies; Introduction to Text Analysis; The War Poems and Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen; and more.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/newmain.html A pictorial history of World War I and its poets, from Brigham Young Univ.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi A major archive of primary documents on WWI created by the World War I Military History Discussion List and housed at Brigham Young University.
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets Prof. Henry Rusch of Emory Univ. has created the web site Lost Poets of the Great War, which contains links to biographies for several of the war poets, including Owen, a sampling of his poetry with brief commentary, and some factual information about World War I.
http://departments.colgate.edu/peacestudies/core310/Poetry.htm Poets of the Great War, a web site from Professor Nigel Young.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/influence/influence.html The impact of World War I and the poets of that period on the poets of World War II, part of an exhibit on WWI from Brigham Young Univ.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose The prose and poetry of WWI, from a website by WWI enthusiast Michael Duffy.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/index_twp.htm The 1917 anthology of war poems, A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1917, edited by George Herbert Clark.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm A special feature from the BBC on World War I.
http://www.westernfront.co.uk The Western Front Association is a good source of historical information about WWI.
The Poets and Writers of World War I
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Update 12/15/2004