War Poems

War Poems

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From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published October 12th 1999 by Everyman's Library (first published September 24th 1999)
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William J. Shep
A wonderful selection of war related poems written (and translated) down through the ages. This includes such classics as The Charge of the Light Brigade and In Flanders Field.
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War Poems (Hardcover)
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize Poems Bewitched and Haunted The Best American Poetry 1998 American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (Library of America #66)

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