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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive view detail comment email this

This is "an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research" about World War I poetry. Browse collections for specific poets such as Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. Also features additional media collections, educational materials (designed for the British educational system), and separate archive of user-submitted items. From the University of Oxford.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
Topics: Poetry, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Mar 17, 2009


The Great War view detail comment email this

This World War I site includes history and analysis of the war; overviews of the battles of Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele with excerpts from veteran's letters and audio interviews; a ten minute video showing film footage and photographs from the battlefields; and information on the Russian revolution, war memorials, and poets who died in the war. Produced in 1998 by BBC News in observance of the 80th anniversary of the Armistice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/197437.stm
Topics: Correspondence, Holidays and Observances Individually, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Sep 8, 2009


Lost Poets of the Great War view detail comment email this

Contains brief biographies and poems of World War I poets Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, and Edward Thomas. Includes a chronology of World War I, information on casualties, and a bibliography. From a professor at the Emory University English Department.
http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/
Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Military, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Nov 1, 2004


Publications of the War view detail comment email this

This site presents examples of World War I publications such as "newspapers, propaganda material...comical gifts" and postcards. Most notable is a complete run of The Hydra, a newsletter the poet Wilfred Owen contributed to during his stay at Craiglockhart War Hospital. From Oxford University.
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/pubs/
Topics: Communications, Government, Military, Poetry, Politics, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Aug 29, 2004


The Wilfred Owen Association view detail comment email this

Considered one of the great war poets, few of Owen's war poems were published during his lifetime, but poet Siegfried Sassoon arranged for the publication of some of Owen's poems after his death; they are studied and admired for their strong themes today. This site includes the poems (with background and commentary), a chronology of his life, a virtual tour with photographs of important places in his short life, and links to other Web resources.
http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/home/
Topics: Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People, Poetry, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Jul 29, 2009




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