{"product_id":"the-war-poets-by-pitkin-pitkin-editors-9781837330737","title":"The War Poets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA moving anthology of First World War poetry, including well-known poets alongside some lesser-known voices.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReissued in a larger format with a new cover, this evocative collection brings you 80 poems from the First World War, from a broad selection of 24 poets including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke, alongside some less famous ones such as Leslie Coulson, the American poet Alan Seeger (uncle of the musician Pete Seeger), and Charles Sorley, whom the midcentury Poet Laureate John Masefield considered the greatest loss of all the poets during the war. Many of the poets featured in the book were tragically killed during the war itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the classic war poems appear here, such as John McCrae's \u003cem\u003eIn Flanders Fields\u003c\/em\u003e, Wilfred Owen's \u003cem\u003eDulce Et Decorum Est\u003c\/em\u003e and W. B. Yeats's \u003cem\u003eAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death\u003c\/em\u003e, alongside some less famous verse from soldiers such as \u003cem\u003eA Listening Post\u003c\/em\u003e by R. E. Vernède and the heartbreaking \u003cem\u003eTo My Daughter Betty\u003c\/em\u003e, penned by T. M. Kettle four days before the poet's death in action in 1916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, the poems in \u003cem\u003eThe War Poets\u003c\/em\u003e give a powerful sense of the futility and horror of the war, with some lighter moments of beauty and camaraderie, and help to keep the memory of these fallen heroes alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67712353698028,"sku":"9781837330737","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781837330737-the-war-poets-1.jpg?v=1791854954","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-war-poets-by-pitkin-pitkin-editors-9781837330737","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}