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Poetry and Songs of World War One

Although World War One stimulated great works in every media, the western world embraced war poetry more than any other art-form, canonising the names of Owen, Sassoon and Graves and making the soldiers' verse synonymous with the conflict.
About: Robert Graves
A biography of poet and soldier Robert Graves.
About: Rupert Brooke
A biography of soldier-poet Rupert Brooke.
About: Wilfred Owen
A biography of Wilfred Owen, famed for his poetry written during World War One.
<i>A Treasury of War Poetry</i>
Accompanied by an interesting, and quite thought-provoking, introduction by George Herbert Clarke, this large collection of British and American poems is divided by key themes, including different countries, Verdun, the wounded and reflections. If you just want to browse, this is an excellent place to start.
Prose and Poetry of the First World War
This smoothly designed page indexes a large range of 'profiles', solid biographical pieces usually backed up by examples and a photograph. There are also several articles, including 'The Making of 'In Flanders Fields'' and 'Robert Graves: A Twentieth Century Life'.

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