War Poems

A powerful and moving anthology of poems, both familiar and less so, from the eighteenth century to our own days in the long shadow of the bomb.The poets evoke the glory and the horror, the exhilaration and the despair, the humanity and the insanity, of war.The selection of poems, both familiar and less so, provides an illuminating context both for the bitter denunciation of Wilfred Owen''s ''Dulc...