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This, the first full-length study of the recently rediscovered poet of the First World War, John Allan Wyeth, contains several in-depth studies of the poetry as well as a wealth of new biographical material. Essays include:~~ John Allan Wyeth: Lost Poet of the Lost Generation.~~ Artistry & Authenticity in the War Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth.~~ A Yank at the Battle of Amiens: The Chipilly Ridge Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth.~~ Wyeth on Horseback~~ John Allan Wyeth and the British War Poets: A Preliminary Comparison.~~ Poet, Painter Spy: Did John Allan Wyeth report on Nazi Activities for British Intelligence during the 1930s?~~ Notes on the Friendship of John Allan Wyeth and Edmund Wilson.~~ Notes on Wyeth's Years in Rapallo.~~ The Rediscovery of a Forgotten War Poet: A Personal Account.

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Index of poets and first lines. 171 pages. ~~~ The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light. This mesmerizing book reminds us how the poetry of that time has, more than any art form, come to stand testament to the grief and outrage occasioned by World War I.

NEW copy, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrations, Night after night through heavy shellfire, Alpheus Appenheimer, a private with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade of Marines, hauled ammunition to front-line positions of his company with a 4-line mule-team and wagon during the fiercest fighting at Belleau Wood. ~~~ For years after the war, Alpheus hoped to return to Belleau Wood with his wife, America, to show her where he had served during those desperate days and nights in June, 1918, when a single brigade of Marines stood against the German drive on Paris. But the realities of raising a family on a small Illinois farm during the agricultural depression of the 1920s made a trip to France all but impossible, and it was not until seventy-five years after the war that the first member of Alpheus's family was able to make the pilgrimage to Belleau Wood for him.

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in mylar protector. A tight, clean copy. Forward by Edmund Blunden. Biographies of the poets. Index. --- An important anthology compiled with the encouragement of Sassoon and Blunden, and published while many of the poets were still alive. ~~~ "The journey from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fourth of August' to Philip Johnstone's 'High Wood' was a long and terrible one; a journey paved with the corpses of a generation. It is a journey which I have tried to trace i this collection; a collection that is, therefore, presented not only a an anthology, but as a book -- with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A book written by men who either witnessed or took part in that journey: a book about war." -- Brian Gardiner

Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Third Printing. Index to Titles. 303 pages. ~~~ A tight, clean volume with very little edgewear. Spine unchipped & unfaded. A small, neat signature by previous owner on front flyleaf. ~~~ An important early anthology published during the war. Includes work by Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Thomas Hardy, Katharine Tynan, Leslie Coulson, Robert Bridges, Laurence Binyon, John Drinkwater, A.E., Lord Dunsany, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Julian Grenfell, G.K. Chesterton, Alan Seeger, "Klaxon," Henry Newbolt, J.C. Squire, Henry Van Dyke, Evelyn Underhill, Siegfried Sassoon, Alfred Noyes, Hilaire Belloc, Austin Dobson, Herbert Asquith, Mary Adair-Macdonald and many others.