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The soldier poets. Santanu Das, editorTHE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR336pp.

The soldier poets

Cambridge University Press. Paperback, £17.99 (US $27.99).978 1 107 69295 4. World_War_One__Simple_Version_by_AngusMcLeod.jpg (JPEG Image, 1275x11528 pixels) Welcome. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

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The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. Poems of War: “On Being Asked for a War Poem” (1928) by William.