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Unit 3 - The Poetry of World War I

The Hero - Siegfried Sassoon

November 2021

Gassed by John Singer Sargent, March 1919

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Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen 1918

November 2021

"The Call"

by Jessie Pope (1914)

"Who's for the Game ?"

by Jessie Pope (1916)

The Daily Mail's favourite first world war poetLindesay Irvine: If you thought the conflict was English verse's finest hour, think again

An article from The Guardian on Jessie Pope - Published 2008

Jessie PopeJessie Pope was born in Leicester, England and educated at the North London Collegiate School for Girls. Pope was a prolific writer of occasional poetry and prose, and her work was published widely in periodicals such as the Daily Express, the Evening Standard, The Queen, and the Westminster Gazette. In particular, she wrote humorous verses for Punch magazine, contributing over 170 between 1902 and 1922. Her first books collected poems that had first appeared in periodicals: Paper Pellets (1906) and Airy Nothings (1909). In her lifetime, Pope was known as the “foremost woman humorist” in England. Pope was also instrumental in editing, and bowdlerizing, Robert Noonan’s novel of class struggle and strife, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914). Her posthumous reputation, however, rests on the patriotic verses she wrote during World War I. Originally published in the Daily Mail and other papers, Pope collected her war poems into books such...

1917 - Sam Mendes (2019)

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