Peace and War: A Collection of Poems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192760718 ISBN 13: 9780192760715

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

"The war poems of slaughter and loss in this anthology say as much about peace as do the few idyllic pastoral poems. Of the nearly 200 poems, a few are difficult, but most are dramatic and immediate. There's intense booktalk material here, terrifying action told with burning truth." -- Booklist (starred review)
This comprehensive anthology, now in paperback, spans lands and cultures throughout the world from the time of Ancient Greece and Rome to the uneasiness of the present and the uncertainly of the future. Such poets as Aeschuylus, Milton, Blake, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg and others reflect the central place that feelings of peace and war occupy in our hearts and minds.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark have collaborated on several books for Oxford, including the new Oxford Book of Story Poems.

Review:

The Persians (persae), Sels. by Aeschylus
Small Aircraft by Bella Akhmadulina
I Saw A Broken Town Beside The Grey March Sea by Mabel Esther Allan
The Black-out by Mary Desiree Anderson
The Volunteer by Herbert Henry Asquith
Epitaph On A Tyrant by Wystan Hugh Auden
On This Island by Wystan Hugh Auden
Song by Wystan Hugh Auden
Twelve Songs: 12 by Wystan Hugh Auden
War Poet by Donald Bain
How Sweet The Night by Rachael Bates
Return To Sedgemoor by Patricia Beer
Waterloo by Patricia Beer
Reasons For Refusal by Martin Bell
1940 by John Betjeman
David's Lament Over Saul And Jonathan [or, Inclyti Israel] [ by Bible
Exodus, Fr. Exodus by Bible
The Four Horsemen by Bible
Isaiah, Sels. by Bible
Neither Shall They Learn War Any More by Bible
The Voice Out Of The Whirlwind by Bible
A Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
To A Home-town Conscript Posted Overseas by Peter Bland
The Kite by Alexander (aleksandr) Alexandrovich Blok
The Legend Of The Dead Soldier by Bertolt Brecht
Questions Of Our Time by O. H. Kwesi Brew
1914: 1. Peace by Rupert Brooke
1914: 5. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke
Stanzas by George Gordon Byron
Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
Ye Mariners Of England by Thomas Campbell
At The British War Cemetery, Bayeux by Charles Causley
Waiting For The Barbarians by Constantine P. Cavafy
Picture From The Blitz by Lois Clark
Lunchtime Lecture by Gillian Clarke
Cissbury Ring by Paul Coltman
Hieronymus Bosch, We Can Do It by Paul Coltman
Nursery Rhyme 1984 by Paul Coltman
Troy by Paul Coltman
Poem In 1944 by George Robert Acworth Conquest
Reprisal by Herbert Corby
War Is Kind: 1 by Stephen Crane
Two: 3 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Xaipe: 65 by Edward Estlin Cummings
Watching Post by Cecil Day Lewis
Where Are The War Poets? by Cecil Day Lewis
Peace (1) by Walter John De La Mare
Armistice by Paul Dehn
It Feels A Shame To Be Alive by Emily Dickinson
Demaeneta Sent Eight Sons %to Fight The Ranks Of The Foe by Dioscorides
Elegy For An 88 Gunner by Keith Castellaine Douglas
From Many A Mangled Truth A War Is Won. by Clifford Dyment
Concord Hymn; Sung At Completion Of Concord Monument, 1836 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Monuments Of Hiroshima by Dennis Joseph Enright
Demetrius Fled The Fight In Fear. by Erycius Of Cyzicus
The Trojan Women, Sels. by Euripides
Easter Monday by Eleanor Farjeon
Departure by Carolyn Forche
Gun-teams (loos, September 1915) by Gilbert Frankau
The Tuft Of Flowers by Robert Frost
A. B. C. Of A Naval Trainee by Roy Fuller
Spring 1942 by Roy Fuller
Crazed Man In Concentration Camp by Agnes Gergely
The Question by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Ridge: 1919 by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
They Held Up A Stone. by Amir Gilboa
Nationality by Mary Cameron Gilmore
The Kimono by Don Gordon
The Last Day Of Leave by Robert Ranke Graves
Another Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries; Reply To Housman by Christopher Murray Grieve
Achtung! Achtung! by Mary Hacker
An Airstrip In Essex, 1960 by Donald Hall
Nursery Rhyme by Leo Hamalian
After A War by Michael Hamburger
Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
I Looked Up From My Writing by Thomas Hardy
In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' by Thomas Hardy
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
Beaucourt Revisited by Alan Patrick Herbert
Before Action by William Noel Hodgson
Fairy Tale by Miroslav Holub
A History Lesson by Miroslav Holub
A War Film by Teresa Hooley
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Epitaph On An Army Of Mercenaries by Alfred Edward Housman
Oh Stay At Home, My Lad, And Plough by Alfred Edward Housman
Post-war by Libby Houston
Landscape With Tanks by Jim Hovell
Six Young Men by Edward James Hughes
High Wood by Philip Johnstone
Now We Are Six by Olga Katzin Katzin
The Looker-on by Frank Kendon
War Poet by Sidney Keyes
I'll Have The Window Southward. by Kim Sang-yong
Report To The Valley Camp by Jenny King
Harp Song Of The Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
Tommy [atkins] by Rudyard Kipling
Ghosts, Fire, Water; On The Hiroshima Panels by James Kirkup
I Saw A Film One Sunday. by John Kitching
On The Death Of Young Guerillas by Mazisi Kunene
Peace by Mazisi Kunene
Does Spring Come To A Lost Land? by Lee Sang-hwa
Day Of These Days by Laurie Lee
The Long War by Laurie Lee
A Moment Of War by Laurie Lee
What Were They Like by Denise Levertov
All Day It Has Rained by Alun Lewis
Autumn, 1939 by Alun Lewis
To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars by Richard Lovelace
Epitaph On A Jacobite by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Prayer Before Birth by Frederick Louis Macneice
The Tomb Of Lieutenant John Learmonth, A. I. F. by John Streeter Manifold
In The Land %where Tanks Had Plowed The Soil by Leonid Nikolayevich Martynov
15th March 1939 by Gerda Mayer
Song Of The Rain by Hugh Raymond Mccrae
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae
Crusader by Roger Mcgough
Luck by Dennis Mcharrie
The Question by Alexander Mckee
Shiloh; A Requiem by Herman Melville
Conscientious Objector by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet: 18. On The Late Massacre In Piedmont by John Milton
The Horses by Edwin Muir
The Human Tyrants by Alison Murdoch
They Dared Him by Kevin Myhill
Early March by Norman Nicholson
Don't Believe In War by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Man by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
The Paper Soldier by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
The End by Wilfred Owen
Exposure by Wilfred Owen
Futility by Wilfred Owen
He Died Smiling by Wilfred Owen
Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
The Send-off by Wilfred Owen
The Hills Surround Me. by Park Mok-wol
Penelope by Dorothy Parker
History Teacher In The Warsaw Ghetto Rising by Evangeline Paterson
Remember They Say The Dead %who Will Rise Again by Lenrie Peters
Your Attention Please by Peter Porter
The Medal by Taufiq Rafat
Lessons Of The War: 1. Naming Of Parts by Henry Reed
Lessons Of The War: 2. Judging Distances by Henry Reed
Lost In France - Jo's Requiem by Ernest Rhys
Winter Warfare by Edgell A. Rickword
August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
Break Of Day In The Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Destroyers In The Arctic by Alan Ross
Survivors by Alan Ross
Buttons by Carl Sandburg
Does It Matter - Losing Your Legs? by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
Glory Of Women by Siegfried Sassoon
Memory by Siegfried Sassoon
Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
The Drum by John Scott
Before Agincourt [or, Henry V Encouraging His Soldiers] by William Shakespeare
Henry V At The Siege Of Harfleur [or, Henry V In France] by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 25 by William Shakespeare
Landscape by Shin Suk-jung
The Next War: To Sacheverell (november 1918) by Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell
Beach Burial by Kenneth Slessor
My Comrades by Boris Abramovich Slutsky
War Story by Roger Vincent Small
Route March by Charles Hamilton Sorley
Sonnet (3) by Charles Hamilton Sorley
The Children by William Soutar
The Battle Of Blenheim by Robert Southey
The Inflatable Globe by Theodore Spencer
The Truly Great by Stephen Spender
Ultima Ratio Regum by Stephen Spender
At The Bomb Testing Site by William Edgar Stafford
Love Letters Of The Dead by Douglas Street
The Seed by Hal Summers
There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale
For I Dipt Into The Future, Far As Human Eye Could See by Alfred Tennyson
The Hand That Signed The Paper Felled A City by Dylan Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London by Dylan Thomas
The Glory by Philip Edward Thomas
Words by Philip Edward Thomas
Good by Ronald Stuart Thomas
Epitaph On A New Army by Michael Thwaites
Rural Idyll by Margaret Toms
Tolquhon Castle by Margaret Toms
Book Of Songs, Sels. by Anonymous
Fighting South Of The Ramparts by Anonymous
I Climb That Wooded Hill, Fr. Book Of Songs by Anonymous
On The Tomb Of The Spartan Dead At Thermopylae by Anonymous
Terra Australis by Chris Wallace-crabbe
The Enemy by Bettina Wegner
Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
Reconciliation by Walt Whitman
When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
The Magpies In Picardy. by T. P. Cameron Wilson
Legend by Judith Wright
On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Between Battles by Zhang Zhimin
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0192760718
• ISBN 13: 9780192760715
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Harrison Michael, Stuart-Clark Christopher
• Illustrator: Marks Alan