7. World War I Poetry in England

Modern Poetry (ENGL 310) with Langdon Hammer A representative sample of English poetry of World War One is surveyed. War rhetoric and propaganda are examined and challenged in Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est“ and “Strange Meeting.“ The relationship between home front and battle front is explored in Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing,“ “In the Time of ’the Breaking of Nations,’“ and “I Looked up From My Writing“; Edward Thomas’s “Adlestrop“; and Siegfried Sassoon’s “’Blighters.’“ Isaac Rosenberg’s “Louse H