Seminar Map

1. Introductory Page
   • Seminar Introduction
     • What is 'War Poetry'?
     • Why the First World War?
     • Why British Poets?
       • Yeats' comments on WWI poetry
     • War Poetry as Historical Fact?
2. Bibliography
3. The Poems
   • Wilfred Owen
     • Biography
       • Craiglockhart War Hospital
       • Ors & the Sambre Canal
     • Photograph of Wilfred Owen in Uniform
     • Chronology
     • Analysis of 'Disabled'
     • More Poems by Owen:
       • S.I.W.
       • Mental Cases
       • Smile, Smile, Smile
     • Letters by Owen:
       • To Susan Owen, 4 January 1917
       • To Susan Owen, 25 April 1917
       • To Leslie Gunston, 22 August 1917
     • Other Related Material
       • Letter from Robert Graves to Wilfred Owen [Circa 17 October 1917]
       • Preface to Owen's proposed edition
       • Poem: A.E. Housman: To an Athlete Dying Young
   • Siegfried Sassoon
     • Biography
       • Sassoon's Declaration against the War
       • Craiglockhart War Hospital
     • Photograph of Siegfreid Sassoon
     • Extracts from Sassoon's Diaries
     • Analysis of 'Survivors'
     • More Poems by Sassoon:
       • Counter-Attack
       • The Death-Bed
       • Does it Matter?
       • 'They'
       • Suicide in the Trenches
   • Rupert Brooke
     • Biography
     • Photograph of Rupert Brooke
     • Obituary (annotated)
     • Analysis of 'III. The Dead'
     • More Poems by Brooke
       • The Treasure
       • I. Peace
         • Analysis of 'I. Peace'
       • II. Safety
       • IV. The Dead
       • V. The Soldier
         • Analysis of 'V. The Soldier'
   • Edward Thomas
     • Biography
     • Photograph of Edward Thomas
     • Chronology
     • Analysis of 'A Private'
     • More poems by Thomas:
       • As the Team's Head- Brass
       • This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
       • Rain
   • Isaac Rosenberg
     • Poem selections:
       • Returning, We Hear The Larks
       • Dead Man's Dump
   • Women's WWI poetry
     • Introduction
     • Photograph of Munitions Workers
     • Poem selections:
       • Munition Wages
       • The Wind on the Downs
       • The Call
       • Over the Top
   • Trench poetry & songs
     • Introduction
     • Trench Poetry (by 'Woodbine Willy'):
       • The Spirit
       • The Secret
       • Well?
       • War
     • Trench Songs:
       • Introduction
       • 'It's a long way to Tipperary'
       • 'Bombed last night'
       • 'Good-bye-ee'
       • 'Never Mind'
       • 'Three German Officers crossed the Rhine'
       • 'Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire'
       • 'I wore a Tunic'
       • 'Old Joe Whip'
       • 'Hush, here comes a Whizzbang'
       • 'When this lousy war is over'
       • 'Whiter than the Whitewash'
       • 'Oh it's a lovely war!'
       • 'The Bells of Hell'
       • 'I want to go home'
       • 'Far, far from Wipers'
       • 'I don't want to join the Army'
       • 'We are Fred Karno's army'