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.
Professor Paul O'Prey is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Roehampton in London, where he is also Professor of Modern Literature. He is a former president of the War Poets Association, a member of the council of the IWM Friends, and author of a number of books including 'Robert Graves' Selected Poems' (Penguin, 1986), completed after a long period working with the poet.
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