Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg: With Letters and the Play, Moses

by Isaac Rosenberg, Tim Kavi (Foreword)

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918), is considered one of the Great War poets from WW I. Although a budding young poet before the war, Rosenberg was hailed by some critics, as on the path to becoming one of the UK's most outstanding poets, had he not been tragically killed by enemy fire while serving at the front in France. This work offers selected poems written while at the front, some of his earlier poems, and the play, Moses. Also included are letters he wrote to friends before the war and during it. Annotated front matter includes a brief biography, and commentary by the poet Tim Kavi on Rosenberg's poem; The Female God.

73 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2019

About the author

Isaac Rosenberg is widely recognised as one of the finest English poets of the First World War. Born into a working class Jewish family, at the age of seven Rosenberg moved from Bristol to a strongly Jewish area of East London. At fourteen he left school to become an apprentice engraver, but at the outbreak of the Great War he was living in South Africa with his sister in the hope that a warm climate would do his chronic bronchitis some good. Critical of the war from the outset, he nevertheless joined up in 1915. He was killed near the Somme on the Western Front in 1918.
He is currently commemorated as one of 16 Great War Poets in Westminster Abbey.