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| 1 | Conflict Culture |
How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? |
Matthew Leonard |
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| 1 | From Owen's Doomed Youth, to his doomed youth |
Lecture at the event 'Wilfred Owen: From Doomed Youth to the Battle of the Sambre'.... |
Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
| 2 | The Last Phase |
A discussion on the last phase of the First World War. A talk given at 'Wilfred Owen: From... |
Max Egremont |
| 3 | The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture) |
Free public lecture at Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript ... |
Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff |
| 4 | Anthem for Doomed Youth (readings) |
by Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
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| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | Wilfred Owen - biography |
'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.' |
Stephanie Fishwick, Stuart Lee |
| 2 | Edward Thomas - biography |
If the war goes on I believe I shall find myself a sort of Englishman, though neither poet... |
Katharine Lindsay |
| 3 | First World War |
The Great War (also known as World War One, and the First World War) was a global combat centred... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 4 | The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry |
The poetry written during the First World War was often created as an elegiac response to the... |
Charlotte Barrett |
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| 1 | Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up | Ford Maddox Ford | |
| 2 | Parade's End: No More Parades | Ford Maddox Ford | |
| 3 | Parade's End: Some Do Not... | Ford Maddox Ford |
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| 1 | Wilfred Owen Grave |
Wilfred Owen - the grave in Ors communal cemetery |
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| 1 | Slimescapes (article) |
"If the First World War is described as the end of illusion for a whole generation of young men... |
Santanu Das |
| 2 | The Dying Kiss: Gender and Intimacy in the Trenches of World War I |
Article by Santanu Das for the World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings... |
Santanu Das |
| 3 | Truth-telling versus literary allusion in David Jones’s ‘In Parenthesis’ (1937) |
Article by Anna Johnson, part of the World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings... |
Anna Johnson |
| 4 | Europeana 1914-1918 (memorabilia collection) |
A big and growing online archive of memorabilia from the time of the First World War. Stories... |
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| 5 | Edward Thomas's Birthday |
Blog post and comments. Includes Thomas's poem, 'March the 3rd'. |
Tim Kendall |
| 6 | Edward Thomas: 'In Memoriam [Easter 1915]' |
Blog post and comments discussing the manuscript of Edward Thomas's 'In Memoriam [Easter 1915... |
Tim Kendall |