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G.B. Smith's wit, imagination, and growing maturity in the face of war are the subject of a recently-published edited collection. I wrote chapter 2, about Smith's participation in Oxford Union debates and his wartime consolations of myth and music.

#Tolkien #BattleoftheSomme #WWI #WWIPoetry
July 14, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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"On Passing the New Menin Gate" by Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay #siegfriedsassoon #worldwaripoetry #wwipoetry
On Passing the New Menin Gate Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,— Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones? Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone, The armies who endured that sullen swamp. Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride 'Their name liveth for ever,' the Gateway claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime. ~ Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
warpoetrycollect.bsky.social
The Coming Of War
Leon Gellert

Strong from the hills it comes, and flowing
  rivers;
Swift from the waters of the rising seas;
Swift on the chilling heart that waits and quivers
Wit…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Second Battalion Headquarters
John Allan Wyeth

"Where's the First Battalion? We haven't got any more
idea than you have ~~ they might be anywhere.
There's no front line. You'll just get caught in a…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
upstart-english.bsky.social
2/ ... which makes his #WWIpoetry so compelling for me is the rage, the absolute fury at what he and his fellow soldiers were having to endure. It's always simmering below the surface; now and then it rises to burst like a bubble of poisonous gas in a volcano full of lava. It does ... /3
March 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM