ANTHOLOGIES

Bentley, James (ed), SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD: Poetry of the Great War. Little, Brown and Company, 1992, reprinted 1998.

Braithwaite (ed), William Stanley, VICTORY! CELEBRATED BY THIRTY-EIGHT AMERICAN POETS.

Cornebise (ed), Alfred E., DOUGHBOY DOGGEREL: VERSE OF THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, 1918- 1919 (Ohio University Press: 1985).

Cross, Tim, THE LOST VOICES OF WORLD WAR I: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF WRITERS, POETS & PLAYWRIGHTS. (Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1989). "... the first book of its kind to look at a broad international cross-section of the literary talent cut short in the first modern war of our century. ...some sixty writers from virtually all the combatant nations are represented: there are extracts from their work, authoritative introductory essays, and full biographical & bibiographical details. An appendix lists some 800 writers of all nationalities who are known to have died as a result of WWI..." A major source for biographic & bibliographic material on this site.

Featherstone (ed), Simon, WAR POETRY: AN INTRODUCTORY READER.

Gardner, Brian, UP THE LINE TO DEATH (Methuen, 1964).

Giddings, Robert, THE WAR POETS: THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF RUPERT BROOKE, ROBERT GRAVES, WILFRED OWEN, SIEGFRIED SASSOON, EDMUND BLUNDEN, AND THE OTHER GREAT POETS OF THE 1914-1918 WAR(Orion Books, NY: 1988).

Hamilton, Jill (ed), GALLIPOLI TO GAZA: THE DESERT POETS OF WORLD WAR ONE. Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2003



Lohrke, Eugene, (ed.)ARMAGEDDON: THE WORLD WAR IN LITERATURE.

Macdonald, Lyn (ed), ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH: POETS OF THE GREAT WAR.. Introduction by Lyn Macdonald. (Folio Society, 2000).

Parsons, Ian, MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (Chatto & Windus, 1965).

Powell, Anne (edited & introduced by), A DEEP CRY: FIRST WORLD WAR SOLDIER-POETS KILLED IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS. (Palladour Books, 1993). Poets listed in chronological order of their death. A major source for biographical information contained on this website. Covers UK poets only.

Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore & Grantland Rice (eds), TAPS: FAMOUS POEMS OF THE WORLD WAR.

Silkin, Jon (ed), THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY (Penguin / Allen Lane, 1979).

Stallworthy, Jon (ed), THE OXFORD BOOK OF WAR POETRY.

Stallworthy, Jon (ed), ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH: TWELVE SOLDIER POETS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. (Constable & Robinson, London. Published in association with the Imperial War Museum. 2002). Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum as a companion publication to their exhibition of the same name.

Stephen, Martin (ed), NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE: A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT WAR VERSE. Everyman's Library, 1991.

Taylor, Martin (ed), LADS: LOVE POETRY OF THE TRENCHES. Constable & Company, Ltd., 1989.

Trotter, Jacqueline T. (ed.), VALOUR AND VISION. Poems of the War 1914-1918. London, Martin Hopkinson & Co. Ltd. 1923, "New & Enlarged Edition, Reset". The 'New and Enlarged Edition' added 37 new poems and 17 new poets to the selection first published in 1920 which contained 123 poems. Poets included Richard Aldington, Herbert Asquith, Maurice Baring, Edmund Blunden, Beatrix Brice, Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke, G.K. Chesterton, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, James Elroy Flecker, Ford Madox Ford, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, A.P. Herbert, A.E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Rose Macaulay, John McCrae, Patrick MacGill, Alice Maynell, Wilfred Owen, Siegried Sassoon, Alan Seeger, Osbert Sitwell, J.C. Squire, Edward Thomas, Alec Waugh, W.B. Yeats and Francis Brett Young.