CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD: The Poems of World War One - Rilegato

More than 170 rare and unseen photographs from the Archives of the Daily Mail reveal life in the trenches but also glimpses into the life they left behind Selection of evocative poems from one of our most established and acclaimed anthologists. World War I left 37 million casualties - 16 million who died. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, seven British poets were numbered among the dead - the harvest of a single day. The legacy of this futile war was not only death and terrible injury, as this poignant and moving testimony of the World s greatest conflict reveals, featuring the poetry of: Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Isaac Rosenberg Rupert Brooke Ivor Gurney Robert Graves W.S.S Lyon Charlotte Mew Jessie Pope Eleanor Farjeon Ernest Hemingway A E Houseman WB Yeats John McRae Then Edward Shanks Harold Monro Bernard Freeman Trotter Nina Murdoch EE Cummings Alan Seeger Wallace Stevens Private Buck McCollum Nina MacDonald M Winifred Wedgewood Mary Gabrielle Collins Helen Parry Eden Richard Aldington Edgell Rickword Rudyard Kipling Wilfred Gibson Ezra Pound Charles Hamilton Sorley Frederic Manning Paul Muldoon Edward Thomas F S Flint Mikhail Naimy Rose Macaulay Stephen Spender