Men Who March Away

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Poems of the First World War An anthology edited with an introduction by I. M. Parsons The first world war produced a far greater body of good poetry than any other war in which Britain has been engaged. now, from a distance of 50 years, we can get both the war and the poetry into perspective, accepting not only the ordeals and disillusionments suffered by soldier poets, but also the 'visions of glory' which fired some of them in 1914. Mr Parsons has made a broad but rigorous selection of the poetry which resulted. His anthology contains work by the famous front-line poets - Owen, Rosenberg, Sassoon, Edward Thomas, Blunden, Graves - and by others, less known today, who wrote truthfully and well out of their experience. There are poems too by older poets who were deeply affected b the war though they could not take an active part in it - Hardy, Yeats, Kipling, Lawrence, and Walter de la Mare. Mr Parsons has divided his anthology into 7 sections which reflect not only the chronological progress of the war, but also the changing emotional attitudes of poets towards it, and prefaced it with a critical introduction. Pages 192 Publisher & Year: Chatto & Windus, Lond - 1965 Condition: Hardcover. Book in excellent condition, Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine, jacket is pink with blue and brown lettering, jacket on top of spin is torn.

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