Tag: War Poets

WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 44 –War Poems and Poets at War

March 31, 2018

I am finding more and more that the things I would speak about in these blog posts are already far more eloquently explained in posts on other, more prestigious, websites. So this month my post is a link to a most excellent article on the Poetry Foundation website. Wilfred Owen’s draft of Dulce Et Decorum Est with … More WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 44 –War Poems and Poets at War

WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 38 – Finished with the War; A Soldier’s Declaration.

September 8, 2017

Now most often referred to as “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration” this letter was really a statement that Sassoon issued to his commanding officer, declining to return to duty after he had been on convalescent leave due to contracting gastric fever in August 2016. This refusal to fight was, Sassoon believed, the best … More WWI: Fifty two months, fifty two posts – 38 – Finished with the War; A Soldier’s Declaration.