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The story of Scotland at war in the poetry of the time, in English, Gaelic and Scots, by servicemen, volunteers, and those on the home front. Well-known soldier poets like E.A. Mackintosh, Domhnall Ruadh Choruna and Joseph Lee are joined by others who fought with their pens to chronicle and comment on the war, among them Mary Symon, Neil Munro and Margaret Sackville. The book is in chronological order, following the war as it develops, with introductions to each year by Yvonne McEwen. From the very first 'Sough o' War' sweeping through the land to conflicting attitudes to volunteering; from the despair of the trenches to the anguish of the bereaved; from unexpected humour to hatred to comradeship; from women at work to men shattered by conflict; from the appalling tragedies of Gretna and the Iolaire to sorrow for a generation cast into the fire, and a last angry condemnation of the human race. This anthology traces the progress of Scotland's war through poetry written by serving soldiers and those on the home front. Includes Charles Hamilton Sorley, E.A. Mackintosh, R.Watson Kerr, Joseph Lee, Charles Murray, May Wedderburn Cannan, Mary Symon.
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• 1. F.O. Call-- CALVARY-- GONE WEST-- IN A BELGIAN GARDEN-- THE INDIFFERENT ONES-- THE LACE-MAKER OF BRUGES-- A SONG OF THE HOMELAND-- TO A MODERN POET-- WILFRED CAMPBELL-- THE FIGHT GOES ON-- LANGEMARCK-- OUR DEAD-- THE SUMMONS-- HELENA COLEMAN-- CHALLENGE-- CONVOCATION HALL, MAY 18TH, 1917-- COUNTRY OF MINE-- THE DAY HE WENT-- MARCHING MEN-- OH, NOT WHEN APRIL WAKES THE DAFFODILS-- PRO PATRIA MORTUI-- THE RECRUIT-- 'TIS NOT THE WILL THAT'S WANTED-- TO OUR BELOVED-- WHEN FIRST HE PUT THE KHAKI ON-- PRIVATE ALBERT WILLIAM DRUMMOND-- THE BATTLEFIELD-- THE COLONIAL'S CHALLENGE-- ON THE BANKS OF THE SOMME-- THE STRETCHER-BEARERS-- ANNA DURIE-- A BUGLE CALL-- THE DAILY LETTER-- MY HEART IT IS A SHRINE FOR DEEDS OF HIS-- AT HOME-- OUR ABSENT HERO-- PASSCHENDAELE-- REQUIEM-- THE RETURN OF THE OLD BATTALION-- A SOLDIER'S GRAVE IN FRANCE-- SUNRISE IN FRANCE-- VIMY RIDGE-- DOUGLAS LEADER DURKIN-- THE CALL-- CARRY ON!-- THE FATHER SPEAKS-- THE FIGHTING MEN OF CANADA-- THE MEN WHO STOOD-- THE MONUMENT-- 7. Frank Prewett-- AIR RAID WARNING-- THE BOMBARDMENT-- CARD GAME-- THE FARM LABOURER-- GIRL AMONG BOMBS-- IF I UNFOLD MY FIST-- PLEA FOR PEACE-- THE SOLDIER-- SOLILOQUY-- THE SURVIVOR-- VOICES OF WOMEN-- 8. Sir Charles G.D. Roberts-- CAMBRAI AND MARNE-- GOING OVER-- 9.
• AMY REDPATH RODDICK-- THE BRITISH LANDS-- GOING WEST-- THE SOLDIERS-- 10. W.W.E. Ross-- FORMS ARISE-- FRANCE-- ON THE HILL-- PENSIVE HE SITS IN THE SHADE-- POPERINGHE, 1917-- SOLDIERY-- PACIFIC-- PROSPECT OF WARS-- WAR-- THREE DEATHS-- 11. Duncan Campbell Scott-- TO A CANADIAN AVIATOR WHO DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY IN FRANCE-- TO A CANADIAN LAD KILLED IN THE WAR-- TO THE CANADIAN MOTHERS-- SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE-- 12. F.G. Scott-- A CANADIAN-- A GRAVE IN FLANDERS-- REQUIESCANT-- 13. Robert Service-- THE CALL-- FUNK-- THE MAN FROM ATHABASKA-- THE ODYSSEY OF 'ERBERT 'IGGINS-- ON THE WIRE-- ONLY A BOCHE.
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While John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" stands as the signature poem of World War 1, the Canadian contribution to the poetry of this period is far wider and deeper. This collection of verse from the men and women who experienced the first great war of the twentieth century includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Marjorie Pickthall, Helena Coleman, and Robert Service, among many others. Their poetry captures both the unfathomable loss and unequaled courage of the time. This contemporary edition includes biographical notes and historical references. Illustrating how amidst the man-made hell of the trenches humanity still clung to the hope and dream of grace, this anthology is a hauntingly lyrical entry to Oxford's new Outlooks on Canadian Literature series.
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This is a newly restored vision of World War I in verse from a talented - and largely unknown - American soldier-poet.First published in 1928, "This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets" is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929, the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary scene.This new edition of "This Man's Army" restores to print a lost vantage point on the American experience in the Great War as valuable for its high literary merits as for its historical accuracy. The new introduction by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, chronicles the life of the elusive author and maps the book's critical reception and place in World War I poetry, while new annotations by military historian B. J. Omanson establish the historical context of individual poems.Wyeth (1894-1981), the son of a prominent New York medical family, had just completed a master's degree in French at Princeton when the United States entered World War I in 1917 and he was motivated into service. His fluency in French garnered him a position in the Interpreters Corps as a second lieutenant in the Thirty-third Division deployed to France and Belgium, and he served in this capacity until his discharge in October 1919. "This Man's Army" is an autobiographical account of Wyeth's service years, detailing his duties as interpreter, messenger, and occasionally sentry while traveling town by town toward the German Hindenburg line. With an unwavering eye for singular details, Wyeth recounts the devastating effects of modern warfare, the cultural interactions of American and French forces, and the lighthearted camaraderie of soldiers on leave. Although he is keenly aware of the brutality of combat, Wyeth's narrator never doubts the eventual American victory.The term fifty-odd in the subtitle describes the sonnets both quantitatively - in that there are fifty-five in total - and qualitatively - as Wyeth stretched the traditional form through incorporation of American and British military jargon and Jazz Age slang as well as a new rhyme scheme unprecedented in the seven-century history of the form.The republication of "This Man's Army" restores to American historical literature an authentically detailed and imaginatively idiosyncratic vision of the Great War from a remarkable soldier-poet who shares universal truths about warfare as relevant and provocative today as when they were written.
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This bilingual edition is notable for its translations of the concrete poems and for the thoroughness and acuity of the commentary.
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• v. 1. The poems
• v. 2. The manuscripts of the poems and the fragments.