![]() Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.Īfter the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. Aberporth : Palladour Books, c1996.īecause this volume is not limited to poets killed in the war (as is A Deep Cry), it includes work by such writers as Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, and David Jones (whose epic poem, In Parenthesis, tells the story of a unit's move to and involvement in the Battle of the Somme).Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.Ī. The Fierce Light : The Battle of the Somme July-November 1916 : Prose and Poetry / selected and edited by Anne Powell. Following the same style of biographical and historical sketches, Anne Powell has also edited a volume documenting the Battle of the Somme: Aberporth, : Palladour, 1993.Īnne Powell's A Deep Cry combines historical background, biography, prose and poetry to provide a portrait of each poet covered. Prior, 1978.Ī Deep Cry : a Literary Pilgrimage to the Battlefields and Cemeteries of First World War British Soldier-Poets Killed in Northern France and Flanders / edited and introduced by Anne Powell. ![]() ) Catherine Reilly is also the compiler of what has become the standard bibliography of Great War poetry:Įnglish Poetry of the First World War : a Bibliography / Catherine W. (For more on Great War poetry written by women, see the study in the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature at. Vera Brittain and Jessie Pope are among the poets. ![]() ![]() London : Virago, 1981.Ĭatherine Reilly's anthology shows us the other side of the Great War experience in verse: poetry of "over here," of non-combatants. Reilly with a preface by Judith Kazantzis. Scars Upon My Heart : Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War / edited and introduced by Catherine W. (Martin Stephen's more complete critical analysis can be studied in The Price of Pity : Poetry, History and Myth in the Great War.) Stephen also provides excellent analysis, chronology, and biography to accompany the poems. Meanwhile, Stephen leaves out poems by Robert Graves (respecting Graves own excising of his war poetry from later collections), and even John McCrae'swell-known " In Flanders Fields." A true enthusiast of Great War poetry, Stephen is understandably nostalgic enough to include earlier versions of Owen's " Spring Offensive," and Rosenberg's " Dead Man's Dump." Poems by women, airmen, poems of the war at sea, and poetry written about theaters other than the Western Front, reinforce the feeling that this was truly a world war. Munro) are included, as are lengthy excerpts from the "lost" epic masterpiece The Song of Tiadatha. Early poems by Rupert Brooke add another dimension to his generally accepted reputation as a naively patriotic war poet. Truly a "new" anthology, recognizing and incorporating the unknown, the forgotten, and the overlooked along with the expected canon of Great War verse. Martin Stephen takes the title of his anthology Never Such Innocence, from the poem " MCMXIV" by Philip Larkin. Never Such Innocence : a New Anthology of Great War Verse / edited and introduced by Martin Stephen.
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