Peace and War: A Collection of PoemsThe war poems of slaughter and loss in this anthology say as much about peace as do the few idyllic pastoral poems. Of the nearly 200 poems, a few are difficult, but most are dramatic and immediate. There's intense booktalk material here, terrifying action told with burning truth. -- Booklist (starred review) This comprehensive anthology, now in paperback, spans lands and cultures throughout the world from the time of Ancient Greece and Rome to the uneasiness of the present and the uncertainly of the future. Such poets as Aeschuylus, Milton, Blake, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg and others reflect the central place that feelings of peace and war occupy in our hearts and minds. |
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Contents
What can I have Meant by Happiness? | 8 |
Day of These Days Laurie Lee | 14 |
The Tuft of Flowers Robert Frost | 22 |
W H Auden | 29 |
Alun Lewis | 36 |
Route March Charles Sorley | 42 |
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont John Milton | 44 |
After Blenheim Robert Southey | 50 |
Hohenlinden Thomas Campbell | 106 |
The Question Wilfrid Wilson Gibson | 112 |
Reconciliation Walt Whitman | 118 |
What is Woman that you Forsake Her? | 126 |
Harp Song of the Dane Women Rudyard Kipling | 132 |
Saw a Film One Sunday John Kitchen | 138 |
Monuments of Hiroshima D J Enright | 144 |
The Tomb of Lieutenant John Learmonth A I | 150 |
The Hand that Signed the Paper | 56 |
On the Tomb of the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae | 62 |
The Question Alexander McKee | 68 |
A B C of a Naval Trainee Roy Fuller | 74 |
We were not Prepared for This | 80 |
War is Kind Stephen Crane | 87 |
To a HomeTown Conscript Posted Overseas Peter Bland | 94 |
A Moment of War Laurie Lee | 100 |
You are Requested Kindly not to Touch | 156 |
High Wood Philip Johnstone | 160 |
Statistically it is not likely to be | 166 |
Small Aircraft Bella Akhmadulina | 178 |
How Sweet the Night Rachael Bates | 200 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Peace and War: A Collection of Poems Collection of Poems |
| Editors | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark |
| Illustrated by | Alan Marks |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0192760718, 9780192760715 |
| Length | 208 pages |
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