The Poetry of World War One
Siegfried Sassoon
In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse. These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue.
The full list of poets included in this collection are: Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John.
Duration - 11h 10m.
Author - Siegfried Sassoon.
Narrator - Lucy Scott.
Published Date - Thursday, 25 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2024 Public Domain ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In the midst of bombs and bullets, trenches and trauma, the soldiers of World War I, and those observing the horrors taking place from home, took pen to paper to record their experiences in verse. These poems - considered the greatest written during WWI and some of the greatest poetry of the twentieth century - show the horror of war but also shine a light on the strength of human courage, bravery, and virtue. The full list of poets included in this collection are: Thomas Hardy; Isaac Rosenberg; Rupert Brooke; Katharine Tynan; Jessie Pope; Charles Hamilton Sorley; Laurence Binyon; Wallace Stevens; May Wedderburn Cannan; Vera Mary Brittain; May Sinclair; Robert Nichol; John McCrae; Siegfried Sassoon; Edward Thomas; Alan Seeger; Edith Wharton; Edward Thomas; Sara Teasdale; Julian Grenfell; WB Yeats; Margaret Postgate Cole; Rudyard Kipling; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Arthur Graeme West; Henry Newbolt; Robert W. Service; Florence Ripley Mastin; Anna Gordon Keown; Wilfred Owen; Robert Graves; Francis Ledwidge; Ivor Gurney; Mary Borden; Gertrude Stein; Carl Sandburg; Robert Nichols; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; John Peale Bishop; Charlotte Mew; Ezra Pound; Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Edgell Rickword; Hervey Allen; G. K. Chesterton; Edmund Blunden; A. E. Housman; Ernest Hemingway; Jessie St. John. Duration - 11h 10m. Author - Siegfried Sassoon. Narrator - Lucy Scott. Published Date - Thursday, 25 January 2024. Copyright - © 2024 Public Domain ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:10:14
1914
Duration:00:27:35
Channel Firing, by Thomas Hardy
Duration:02:04:48
On Receiving News of the War, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:00:58:15
Peace, by Rupert Brooke
Duration:01:04:40
The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke
Duration:01:05:21
The Dead, by Rupert Brooke
Duration:01:10:33
Joining the Colours, by Katharine Tynan
Duration:01:01:50
Men Who March Away, by Thomas Hardy
Duration:01:35:57
War Girls, by Jessie Pope
Duration:01:01:44
To Germany, by Charles Hamilton Sorley
Duration:01:10:01
For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon
Duration:02:04:11
Phases, by Wallace Stevens
Duration:01:53:31
August 1914, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:00:41:57
August 1914, by May Wedderburn Cannan
Duration:01:14:12
August, 1914, by Vera Mary Brittain
Duration:00:30:06
1915
Duration:00:17:38
Dedication 8 March, by May Sinclair
Duration:02:04:16
“The Chink”, by Robert Nichols
Duration:01:15:25
In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae
Duration:00:53:12
Absolution, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:00:49:01
Home, by Edward Thomas
Duration:02:24:45
Champagne, 1914-15, by Alan Seeger
Duration:04:09:33
Belgium, by Edith Wharton
Duration:00:28:48
Before Marching and After, by Thomas Hardy
Duration:01:28:43
In Memoriam (Easter, 1915), by Edward Thomas
Duration:00:24:55
The Owl, by Edward Thomas
Duration:01:09:09
Lament, by Katharine Tynan
Duration:01:43:03
Spring in War-Time, by Sara Teasdale
Duration:00:59:31
Into Battle, by Julian Grenfell
Duration:02:29:46
On Being Asked for a War Poem, by W.B. Yeats
Duration:00:30:11
Rouen, by May Wedderburn Cannan
Duration:04:12:26
Marching, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:00:46:19
Such, Such is Death, by Charles Hamilton Sorley
Duration:01:12:07
The Falling Leaves, by Margaret Postgate Cole
Duration:00:41:39
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead', by Charles Hamilton Sorley
Duration:01:12:48
This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong, by Edward Thomas
Duration:01:43:58
1916
Duration:00:15:30
My Boy Jack, by Rudyard Kipling
Duration:01:02:29
Field Ambulance in Retreat, by May Sinclair
Duration:01:07:50
Rain, by Edward Thomas
Duration:01:14:54
Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:01:24:08
The Troop Ship, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:00:31:59
The Kiss, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:00:46:40
The Poet As Hero, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:01:05:24
As the Team's Head Brass, by Edward Thomas
Duration:02:22:21
Sonnet 9: On Returning to the Front After Leave, by Alan Seeger
Duration:01:05:48
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’, by Thomas Hardy
Duration:00:50:06
The Trumpet, by Edward Thomas
Duration:00:49:24
The Messages, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Duration:01:12:12
The Death Bed, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:03:11:20
Lights Out, by Edward Thomas
Duration:01:19:57
The Night Patrol, by Arthur Graeme West
Duration:03:26:48
The War Films, by Henry Newbolt
Duration:00:57:20
The Twins, by Robert W. Service
Duration:01:06:16
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France, by Alan Seeger
Duration:06:20:17
At the Movies, by Florence Ripley Mastin
Duration:00:34:41
1917
Duration:00:23:55
Reported Missing, by Anna Gordon Keown
Duration:00:51:40
Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:02:02:24
I Have a Rendezvous with Death, by Alan Seeger
Duration:01:22:58
Blighters, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:00:38:31
Two Fusiliers, by Robert Graves
Duration:00:59:21
Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:01:05:40
Returning, We Hear the Larks, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:01:03:19
The Dead Kings, by Francis Ledwidge
Duration:01:59:44
Servitude, by Ivor Gurney
Duration:00:59:57
from At the Somme: The Song of the Mud, by Mary Borden
Duration:03:58:48
Dead Man’s Dump, by Isaac Rosenberg
Duration:04:38:37
Counter-Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:02:34:08
Sergeant-Major Money, by Robert Graves
Duration:01:31:04
from The Work, by Gertrude Stein
Duration:04:26:25
To His Love, by Ivor Gurney
Duration:00:58:15
After the War, by May Wedderburn Cannan
Duration:00:34:02
To Any Dead Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:02:38:18
Photographs, by Ivor Gurney
Duration:01:56:23
Breakfast, by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Duration:00:33:07
1918
Duration:00:33:25
Strange Meeting, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:03:30:36
Futility, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:00:52:30
Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:01:00:26
The Veteran, by Margaret Postgate Cole
Duration:00:50:48
Repression of War Experience, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:03:01:09
Grass, by Carl Sandburg
Duration:00:41:39
Dawn on the Somme, by Robert Nichols
Duration:00:52:12
“God! How I Hate You, You Young Cheerful Men”, by Arthur Graeme West
Duration:03:38:08
Ypres, by Laurence Binyon
Duration:01:03:37
Spring Offensive, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:03:10:33
Epitaph On My Days in Hospital, by Vera Mary Brittain
Duration:00:22:13
Roundel, by Vera Mary Brittain
Duration:00:46:01
War Mothers, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Duration:03:29:44
Glory of Women, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:01:00:00
Smile, Smile, Smile, by Wilfred Owen
Duration:01:53:12
S. I. W., by Wilfred Owen
Duration:03:04:43
And There Was a Great Calm, by Thomas Hardy
Duration:03:41:40
1919 and After
Duration:00:33:38
The Lament of the Demobilized, by Vera Brittain
Duration:00:53:22
Winter Warfare, by Edgell Rickword
Duration:01:00:49
Cravings, by John Peale Bishop
Duration:01:21:08
January 1919, by Christopher Middleton
Duration:00:46:14
Everyone Sang, by Siegfried Sassoon
Duration:00:42:29
The Cenotaph, by Charlotte Mew
Duration:02:06:06
First Time In [“After the Dread Tales ... ”], by Ivor Gurney
Duration:01:17:28
Epitaphs of the War, by Rudyard Kipling
Duration:11:29:54
Gethsemane, by Rudyard Kipling
Duration:00:58:07
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [Part I], by Ezra Pound
Duration:12:11:26
A. E. F., by Carl Sandburg
Duration:00:45:32
To E. T., by Robert Frost
Duration:01:25:29
In Memory of George Calderon, by Laurence Binyon
Duration:03:28:12
War and Peace, by Edgell Rickword
Duration:01:04:11
Trench Poets, by Edgell Rickword
Duration:01:22:50
Soldier-Poet, by Hervey Allen
Duration:01:05:42
For a War Memorial, by G. K. Chesterton
Duration:00:55:41
Festubert, 1916, by Edmund Blunden
Duration:02:25:14
Elegy in a Country Churchyard, by G. K. Chesterton
Duration:00:42:03
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries, by A. E. Housman
Duration:00:35:57
“Soldier From the Wars Returning”, by A. E. Housman
Duration:00:57:26
I Saw England — July Night, by Ivor Gurney
Duration:01:16:46
Champs D'Honneur, by Ernest Hemingway
Duration:00:29:17
Laventie, by Ivor Gurney
Duration:03:34:05
A War Bride, by Jessie St. John
Duration:00:32:51
Closing Credits
Duration:00:21:34