Articles related to "War Poetry"

Publisher Philippa Roberts talks to Suite 101 about a collection of poems that are very close to her heart.

Philippa Roberts tells us about her journey from passionate reader to owning her own independant publishing company and why children of the UK know her as "Ziggy Rabbit"

Brian Turner's poems are harrowing accounts of the Iraq war exposing readers to the complex psychology of men in battle and the overarching insanity of war.

Throughout history, poetry has served as a call to arms for nations to unite in times of war and then as a romantic historical account of how those wars played out.

According to Walt Whitman scholars, Whitman was not raised within the tenets of one particular religion, but "Quaker thought always played a major role in Whitman's life"

Walt Whitman served in field hospitals during the American Civil War (1861-1865), and he wrote extensively about his experience in both poems and essays.

This cycle of 63 poems by A.E. Housman has been continuously in print since it was self-published in 1896.

National Poetry Month encourages teachers to incorporate poetry into lesson plans and the history classroom is no exception, connecting poems with narrative study.

Randall Jarrell produced an oeuvre of war poetry that attests to the resiliency of the human spirit and the regenerative powers of the trauma narrative.

When the last of the defeated's banners was furled and destroyed in the terrible slaughter of the Civil War, it was witnessed by a poet.

The city state of ancient Sparta was a martial culture the likes the world has rarely seen.

Laurence Binyon was a figure of the literary establishment . He wrote the Ode to Remembrance with no experience of warfare and no idea of how great the toll was to be.

This article explores another side to Pete Doherty, not just the character exposed to us through the media.