This unique volume unites the poetry and the history of the war, so often treated separately, granting readers the pride, strife, and sorrow of the individual soldier’s experience coupled with a panoramic view of the war’s toll on an entire nation. Some Desperate Glory includes a chronological anthology of the poets works, telling the story of the war not only through the lives of these writers but also through their art. Some Desperate Glory will include a chronological anthology of their poems, with linking commentary, telling the story of the war through their art. In Some Desperate Glory, the historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Egremonts Some Desperate Glory is an exceptionally thoughtful treatment of 11 complicated men. Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon the composer Ivor Gurney Robert Graves who would later spurn his war poems the nature-loving Edward Thomas the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols all fought in the war, and their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of unprecedented destruction. TREVEDY, Master-Key To RichesNapoleon Hill, Some Desperate Glory: The First World War The Poets KnewMax Egremont piopend 4. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. The poets – many of whom were killed – show not only the war’s tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The story of World War I, through the lives and words of.

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