Books by Edna Longley
“Thomas has become almost an antidote to Wilfred Owen-type poetry. For those who get fed up with trench poetry or Western Front poetry. Thomas’s poems are much more conversational, simple. They’re about the war years, rather than war itself. There are a few that are quite consciously war poems, but even then he is looking at the war from a different perspective.” Read more...
The best books on Poetry of the First World War
Guy Cuthbertson, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Edna Longley were recommended
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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology
ed. Tim Kendall -
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From the Line: Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945
ed. David Goldie and Roderick Watson -
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
ed. George Walter -
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The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
by Wilfred Owen, ed. John Stallworthy -
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The Annotated Collected Poems
by Edward Thomas, ed. Edna Longley
The best books on Poetry of the First World War, recommended by Guy Cuthbertson
The best books on Poetry of the First World War, recommended by Guy Cuthbertson
Poetry written during the First World War has remained prominent in the public consciousness for more than a century; writers like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Robert Graves are still commonly studied in British schools and universities. Here, Guy Cuthbertson—literary scholar and author of an acclaimed biography of Owen—selects five books to give an overview of the poetry produced during the Great War.
