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10 best books like In Parenthesis (David Jones): The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, The War Poems, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Fear: A Novel of World War I, Under Fire, The Collected Poems, Field Work, Undertones of War, All About H. Hatterr

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
AuthorWilfred Owen
ISBN0811201325
Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...
The War Poems
AuthorSiegfried Sassoon
ISBN0571202659
Sassoon, who lived through World War One and who died in 1967, was, as the introduction to this book tells us, irritated in his later years at always being thought of as a "war poet". Understandable perhaps from the point of view of the poet: readers on the other hand might wish to demur. The poems gathered...
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
AuthorModris Eksteins
ISBN0395937582
A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
AuthorMatthew George Walter
ISBN0141180099
Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflects the diverse experiences of those who lived through the war, bringing together the words of poets, soldiers, and civilians affected by the conflict. Here...
Fear: A Novel of World War I
AuthorGabriel Chevallier
ISBN1590177169
1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted “war to end all wars” seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable,...
Under Fire
AuthorHenri Barbusse
ISBN0143039040
Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has ever inflicted on itself.

For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply...
The Collected Poems
AuthorA.E. Housman
ISBN0805005471
Introduction, by Nick Laird

--A Shropshire Lad

Last Poems
--I. The West
--II. 'As I gird on for fighting . . .'
--III. 'Her strong enchantments failing . . .'
--IV. Illic Jacet
--V. Grenadier
--VI. Lancer
--VII. 'In valleys green and still . . .'
--VIII....
Field Work
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374516200
"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn...
Undertones of War
AuthorEdmund Blunden
ISBN0141184361
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as...
All About H. Hatterr
AuthorG.V. Desani
ISBN1590172426
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta....
Poems of the Late T'ang
AuthorA.C. Graham
ISBN1590172574
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
Selected Poems
AuthorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN0140390642
 

Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.

For more than seventy years, Penguin...
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems
AuthorPaul Schmidt
ISBN1590171918
A New York Review Books Original

A master anthology of Russia’s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English

In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians,...
Selected Poems
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN0374528926
A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is renowned and loved for its powerful insight...
Poets in a Landscape
AuthorGilbert Highet
ISBN1853753017
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
Defeat: Napoleon's Russian Campaign
AuthorPhilippe-Paul de Ségur
ISBN1590172825
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the way, the...
Jejuri
AuthorArun Kolatkar
ISBN1590171632
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgramage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town -- a place that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as modern...
Collected Poems
AuthorThom Gunn
ISBN0374524335
The first of the poems in Thom Gunn’s Collected to really knock me out appears half way through his second book, The Sense of Movement (1957). In the poem, “To Yvor Winters, 1955,” Gunn pays homage to his former teacher with a portrait of the Stanford professor that compares his training of Airedale...
Complete Poems
AuthorBasil Bunting
ISBN0811215636
A master of song poems which celebrate—and incarnate—the music of nature and history, love and mythology, religion and language, Basil Bunting (1900-1985) was a major figure in Modernist poetry, recognized by Pound and Zukofsky as early as the 1930s, and crowned, with the 1966 publication of...
Questions of Travel
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN0374240329
The publication of this book is a literary event. It is Miss Bishop's first volume of verse since Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.  This new collection consists of two parts. Under the general heading "Brazil" are grouped eleven poems including "Manuelzinho," "The Armadillo,"...
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation
AuthorGreg Delanty
ISBN0393079015
Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange complement the portrait of medieval England that emerges...
The Middle Parts of Fortune
AuthorFrederic Manning
War is waged by men; not by beasts, or by gods. It is a peculiarly human activity.

Originally published in 1929 anonymously under the pen name Private 19022, The Middle Parts of Fortune follows ordinary soldiers as they fight to survive in the trenches of a raging war. It was revised and published...
The Missing of the Somme
AuthorGeoff Dyer
ISBN1842124501
”Crosses stretch away in lines so long they seem to follow the curvature of the earth. Names are written on both the front and back of each cross. The scale of the cemetery exceeds all imagining. Even the names on the crosses count for nothing. Only the numbers count, the scale of loss. But this is so huge...
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