**An essential new collection of poetry from the First World War
**
This indispensable anthology brings together the works of three major
poets from the First World War. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical
music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems, Severn and
Somme and War's Embers. Wilfred Owen's (1893- 1918) realistic poetry
is remarkable for its details of war and combat. Isaac Rosenberg's
(1890-1918) Poems from the Trenches is widely considered one of the
finest examples of war poetry from the period. Carefully selected by Jon
Stallworthy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of
Oxford, these poems comprise a landmark publication that reflects the
disparate experiences of war through the voices of the soldiers
themselves.
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