Someone said recently that AI might know more about the history of the First World War than all human historians put together ...
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no ...
Despite the omissions, the great strength of the book is its international reach and while the section on the first world war includes the usual poems by Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, ...
Unlike his contemporaries Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas did not come to be known as a “war poet”. He wrote little about the war. Most of his poems did not see the light of day during his ...
It is, in fact, only the second ever. Yet now, if you ask someone to name a war poet, they will probably mention Wilfred Owen before Sassoon or Brooke, let alone Blunden or Gurney. Although Owen only ...
The comedian shares the moments that have shaped him, from finding success on the comedy circuit, to having a baby in his ...
Muse of Fire (840.3 KO) follows the lives of five of the most seminal writers of the Great War–from Rupert Brooke to Wilfred Owen. Weaving together history, biography, and poetry, Korda ...
DO the people make the place or does the place make the people? Now there is a riddle for you to rest your weary head upon ...
They should also be able to identify the viewpoint of the writer and apply criticism. The poetry of Maya Angelou, Wilfred Owen and Carol Ann Duffy gives students a variety of poetic styles and allows ...
Graves finished his school career a precociously published poet and Charterhouse’s welterweight boxing ... were ringing when the telegram announcing Wilfred Owen’s death was delivered. Graves didn’t ...
The museum’s poet in residence for 2024 is putting poetry by deaf and hard-of-hearing artists on display. Abby Haroun performing at the Guggenheim on Wednesday night. Among her poems was one ...