Schlagwort: Max Egremont

Diaries of war poet online

The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon are being published online for the first time. The archive of 23 journals and two notebooks of poetry has been digitised by the Cambridge University Library, which bought the collection in 2009. Until now only Sassoon’s official biographer… Continue Reading „Diaries of war poet online“

95. Radical Feeling in the Poetry of WWI

The most popular English poem of the First World War was “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae after fighting in the second Battle of Ypres in 1915. The poem ventriloquizes the British dead and concludes with a bit of hortatory sentimental propaganda: Take… Continue Reading „95. Radical Feeling in the Poetry of WWI“