From the worst horrors of modern trench warfare a small handful of soldiers and nurses created a body of poetry that is so vivid and intense that one hundred years later it has engraved itself on our national consciousness.

This anthology focuses on those poets who were on the front line, from the famous Sassoon, Owens and Graves, to nurses like Vera Brittain. The poems are accompanied by a brief and accessible introduction, which sets the context for a reader new to the poems, as well as short biographical profiles of the poets.

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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Rupert Brooke
  • The Dead
  • The Soldier
  • I strayed about the deck
• Charles Sorley
  • All the hills and vales along
  • To Germany
  • Two Sonnets
  • When you see millions of the mouthless dead
• Robert Graves
  • A Dead Boche
  • Two Fusiliers
  • The Legion
  • November 11th
  • The Last Day of Leave (1916)
  • The Haunted House
  • Sergeant-Major Money
  • The Cuirassiers of the Frontier
  • Recalling War
  • The Oldest Soldier
• Siegfried Sassoon
  • ‘They’
  • The Hero
  • Counter-Attack
  • The Rear-Guard
  • Base Details
  • The General
  • Does it Matter?
  • Survivors
  • I Stood with the Dead
  • Everyone Sang
• Mary Borden
  • The Song of the Mud
  • No, no! There is some sinister mistake
  • See how the withered leaves
  • Come to me quickly and take me away
  • Unidentified
• Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • His Mate
  • To Stretcher-Bearers
  • Old England
  • Demobilised
• Edward Thomas
  • In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
  • This is no case of petty right or wrong
  • Rain
  • ‘Home’
  • The Cherry Trees
  • The sun used to shine
  • The Trumpet
  • As the team’s head-brass
  • No one cares less than I
  • Lights Out
• David Jones
  • excerpts from In Parenthesis
• Isaac Rosenberg
  • On Receiving News of the War: Cape Town
  • Marching – as seen from the left file
  • The Troop Ship
  • In the Trenches
  • Break of Day in the Trenches
  • August 1914
  • Louse Hunting
  • Returning, we hear the larks
  • Dead Man’s Dump
• Vera Brittain
  • The German Ward
  • To My Ward-Sister on Night Duty
  • Epitaph on My Days in Hospital
  • The Lament of the Demobilised
  • The Superfluous Woman
• Wilfred Owen
  • Anthem for Doomed Youth
  • 1914
  • Apologia pro Poemate Meo
  • Dulce et Decorum Est
  • Strange Meeting
  • Futility
  • Mental Cases
  • The Send-Off
  • The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
  • Exposure
  • The Sentry
  • Smile, Smile, Smile
• Laurence Binyon
  • For the Fallen
  • Fetching the Wounded
  • excerpt from The Arras Road
  • excerpt from Wingless Victory
  • There is Still Splendour
  • August Afternoon
• Edmund Blunden
  • Festubert, 1916
  • Rural Economy (1917)
  • The Zonnebeke Road
  • Concert Party: Busseboom
  • Report on Experience
  • ‘Can You Remember?’
• May Cannan
  • Rouen
  • Lamplight
  • Paris, November 11, 1918
  • Paris Leave
• Ivor Gurney
  • Song (‘Severn Meadows’)
  • To His Love
  • De Profundis
  • La Gorgue
  • Strange Hells
  • First Time In
  • Behind the Line
  • The Bohemians
  • The Silent One
  • The Mangel-Bury
  • It is Near Toussaints
  • War Books
• Bibliography and text sources
• Acknowledgements