The poetry of the First World War is some of the most important and influential work of the twentieth century shaping our attitudes to war, and still having enormous cultural resonances as witnessed by the national debate surrounding the commemoration of 1914 one hundred years on. However the poetry also brings into question so many 'truths' that it is appropriate that in 2014 we revisit this important body of work in a new light. Whilst poets like Sassoon, Owen, Graves, Rosenberg, and Gurney warrant detailed focus, alongside this 'canon' we should also turn attention to the women poets from the period, as well as Irish and "Empire" poets - questioning the notion of a corpus of purely British literature from 1914-18.
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