The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.
But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy.
War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death. Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words.
1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction
2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen
3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen
5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen
7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas
8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas
9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas
10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas
11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke
13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke
14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke
15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke
16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke
17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg
18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg
20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg
21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge
23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge
24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge
25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge
26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge
27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney
28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney
29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney
30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney
31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney
32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker
33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker
34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker
35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker
36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker
37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon
38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon
39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon
41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon
42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley
43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley
44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley
45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley
46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley
47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein
48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein
49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein
50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein
51 - The End by Alfred Lichtenstein
(Tags : The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets: Five poems each from some of the best war poets ever Wilfred Owen Audiobook, Wilfred Owen Audio CD )
