Minds at War,
Poetry and experience of the First World War

Minds at War

This long established, moving, fascinating and encyclopaedic volume includes:

• 250 poems by 80 poets, The great classic poems of the war by Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Rosenberg, Sorley, Gurney, Thomas, Blunden, Binyon, McCrae, Grenfell, Seeger, Kipling, and others

• Poems by 26 women poets, and 40 other significant poets

• “Lost” verse that enjoyed extraordinary popularity during the First World War

• Extracts from diaries, personal letters and accounts

• Pronouncements by the media, leading commentators and politicians of the day

• An insight into poets and propaganda

• Historic photographs and cartoons

• Maps, biographies, glossary, bibliography, additional illustrations

Edited by David Roberts

It is widely used in academic institutions in Britain and America.

410 pages.

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REVIEWS
“My students are devouring it faster than I can assign readings. This is a great collection.” – Thomas H Crofts, Assistant Professor of English, East Tenessee State University.

 

"I continue to be impressed by the blend of poems famous and others not well-known but illuminating, and the inclusion of citations from politicians, newspapers, etc, that will save hours of classroom explanation."  -  Christopher Armitage
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of Peace, War and Defense, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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"[With Out in the Dark,] Minds at War . . . puts many other First World War anthologies into the shade." - Gordon Hodgson, in National Association of Teachers of English web review on yahoo.co.uk

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“Minds at War is no mere anthology but a comprehensive overview of the poetry and experience of the First World War. David Roberts sets the poems and the poets' lives within a contextual commentary which keeps the story of the war moving forward and provides as many useful historic insights as poetic." - Peter Carter, The John Masefield Society Newsletter.

 

Reviews on the Amazon Minds at War book page

33 reviews with 89% 5-star, 7% 4-star
 

​​Mrs. RP Meinke
5.0 out of 5 stars Minds at War
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 February 2014
Verified Purchase
I bought my copy of this book first at the Imperial War Museum some 15 yrs ago, and I was enthralled by it, as it tells so many stories and shows aspects of life on every front during the 1914-1918 War. It shows the reality also the heartache and horrors in poems, prose, letters, and pictures - photographic and art
This other copy I bought for a friend.

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410 Pages 9"x 6" Paperback      ISBN 978-0-9528969-0-6     
£15.99​

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