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Acknowledgements

I am extremely grateful to several people for providing me with permission to reuse their material for this tutorial. In particular I would like to express my thanks to:

  • Anvil Press Poetry Ltd for granting permission to use the translation of 'Gala' by Oliver Bernard in Apollinaire: Selected Poems (Anvil Press Poetry, 1986)
  • Patrick Bridgewater to reuse his translation of Alfred Lichtenstein's 'Leaving for the Front'
  • Michael Hamburger to reuse his translations of 'Grodek', and 'Battlefield'
  • Rob Evans for his translation of 'Breaking Camp'

If you are interested in finding out more about these poets and others then the following books and web sites are recommended.

Further Reading

General

  • Cross, T. (ed.) The Lost Voices of World War I: An International Anthology of Writers, Poets, and Playwrights (Bloomsbury, 1998). One of the finest collections of poems and prose covering a range of nationalities. The only link being that the writer in question died during the War. Each selection is preceded by an excellent study of the writer and a select bibliography.
  • Giddings, R. The War Poets (Bloomsbury, 1988). A very approachable book, which concentrates predominantly on the English poets but does include poems from other nationalities.
  • Silkin, J. (ed.) The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin, 1996, 2nd ed. rev.). Silkin's anthology was one of the first of many collections to include poems from non-English writers (although all in translation).

Wilfred Owen ('An Imperial Elegy')

See the Wilfred Owen Collection.

August Stramm ('Battlefield')

  • Bridgewater, P. The German Poets of the First World War (Croom Helm, 1985)
  • Cross (1998), pp. 124–43

Ernst Stadler ('Breaking Camp')

  • Cross (1998), pp. 101–08
  • Hamburger, M. A Proliferation of Poets (Carcanet, 1983)

Guillaume Apollinaire ('Gala')

  • Cross (1998), pp. 200–06
  • Hyde Greet, A. Calligrames, poèms de la paix et de la guerre (University of California Press, 1980)

Georg Trakl ('Grodek')

  • Cross (1998), pp. 112–123
  • Graziano, F. (ed.) Georg Trakl (Carcanet, 1984)

Alfred Lichtenstein ('Leaving for the Front')

  • Bridgewater (1985)
  • Cross (1998), pp. 154–165
  • Hamburger (1983)

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