World War I Poetry

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The horrors of the First World War brought released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it. Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in thesepoets still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.