Poets of World War I
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Follow the poets every day
You can keep track of what our poets were doing day by day in two ways. Follow the links on the right to Twitter https://twitter.com/war_poets for a quick recap, or find us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064769673528 – which has longer extracts from diaries, letters etc. plus links to the original source material.
What is important about First World War poetry?
In this video Jon Stallworthy looks at what was significant about the First World War in marking such a major shift in war poetry. From Julian Grenfell to Wilfred Owen, he maps the change in attitudes to the horrors they witnessed.
