History Through Poetry: World War I (History Through Poetry)

by Paul Dowswell

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This book looks at the curriculum history of World War I, through a series of poems from the time. Each poem covers a different topic such as daily wartime living, life in the trenches and attitudes towards patriotism and religion. The backgrounds to each poem and poet is given, together with an explanation of what each poem is about. Features poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, W.B. Yeats, A.A. Milne, John Freeman, Rupert Brooke, August Stramm, J.C. Squire, Madeline Ida Bedford, Marc de Larreguy de Civrieux and Wilfrid Gibson.
  • ISBN10 0750283289
  • ISBN13 9780750283281
  • Publish Date 13 March 2014 (first published 14 November 2002)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 October 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hachette Children's Group
  • Imprint Wayland
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 32
  • Language English