Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in bot

A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compa

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world litera

The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monume