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This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most
distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War.
Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred
Owen's celebrated verses such as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and
'Strange Meeting', along with many of his lesser-known works. The
elegiac poems of Ivor Gurney, including 'Requiem' and 'The Silent
One', reflect his love of language, music and landscape, while the
visceral works of Isaac Rosenberg, such as 'Break of Day in the
Trenches', are filled with stark imagery but also, as in 'Louse
Hunting', with vitality and humour. Each poet reflects the
disparate experiences of ordinary soldiers in war, and attempts to
capture man's humanity in the most inhumane of circumstances.
This volume includes Gurney's early small volumes of verse, "Severn
and Somme" (1917) and "War's Embers" (1919).
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