Close Reading and Analysis
Attitudes Towards Death – ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke and ‘The Next War’ by Wilfred Owen
Song and Pain: Ivor Gurney and George Herbert
Thomas Hardy: In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
Wyndham Lewis: Blasting and Bombardiering
Edward Thomas: The Child on the Cliffs / ‘But these things also’ / The Path / Thomas and Poetic Language / Thomas and Melancholy / Edward Thomas: War Poet? / Edward Thomas and the Duke of Marlborough
Jon Stallworthy on Sassoon’s ‘The Redeemer’ and ‘Christ and the Soldier’
Comparative Criticism: Wilfred Owen and Henri Barbusse
Comparative Criticism: Isaac Rosenberg and Keith Douglas [pdf 188kb 8 pages]
Examples of Students’ Work
Limehurst Academy: Inspired by Jessie Pope
Teaching Resources
Historic Newspapers Important news from the First World War as reported at the time. Free pack available to schools, universities, libraries and accredited education establishments. [external link opens in a new window]
Made From History: World War I – a great collection of information and resources [external link opens in a new window]
The World Remembers – list of names of all war dead plus information about each country’s involvement in the War
Books
Suitable for Key Stage 3 students – ages 11-14
Ideas
Artistry and authenticity in the war sonnets of John Allan Wyeth An exploration of Wyeth’s fidelity to historical fact [external link opens in a new window]
‘But nothing happens’ Ford Madox Ford, Wilfred Owen and the Front Line by Ian Brinton
D.H. Lawrence and War by Ian Brinton
D.H. Lawrence and WW1 by Ian Brinton
The Profits of War by Ian Brinton
Georgian Poetry by Ian Brinton
Graves in Holland by Ian Brinton
Henry Newbolt and cricket by Ian Brinton
Haileybury’s Poetry of the First World War Poster Competition
Mud and Trenches: Ford Madox Ford and Wilfred Owen by Ian Brinton
The Send Off: Owen and Remarque by Ian Brinton
Strange Meeting: Owen and Remarque by Ian Brinton
Trapped in a Landscape – Creative Writing by Ian Brinton
War and Honour by Ian Brinton
When this lousy war is over by Ian Brinton
Wilfred Owen and Ford Madox Ford
World War I and Religion (Owen’s The Parable of the Old Man and the Young and Hasek’s The Gold Soldier Svejk) by Ian Brinton