The Penguin Book of First World War PoetryIntroduction
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Text
Prelude
I. Your Country Needs You
'Let the foul Scene proceed'
'Who's for the khaki suit'
In Training
2. Somewhere In France
In Trenches
Behind the Lines
Comrades of War
3. Action
Rendezvous with Death
Battle
Aftermath
4. Blighty
Going Back
The Other War
Lucky Blighters
5. Peace
Everyone Sang
The Dead and the Living
'Have you forgotten yet?'
Coda
Notes
A Glossary of the Western Front
Biographies
Further Reading
Poem Acknowledgements
Index of Titles and First Lines
George Walter is Lecturer in English at Sussex University. His
research interests are 20th-century literature; madness and
creativity; constructions of Englishness; the cultural impact of
the First World War. He has edited editions of the poet Ivor
Gurney's work for Everyman and Fyfield Books.
Dr George Walter is Lecturer in English at Sussex University. His
research interests are 20th-century literature; madness and
creativity; constructions of Englishness; the cultural impact of
the First World War. He has edited editions of Ivor Gurney's work
for Everyman and Fyfield Books. He lives in Lewes, Sussex.
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