WWI Poetry from Monongahela Books

NEW copy, paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Illustrations, Night after night through heavy shellfire, Alpheus Appenheimer, a private with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, 4th Brigade of Marines, hauled ammunition to front-line positions of his company with a 4-line mule-team and wagon during the fiercest fighting at Belleau Wood. ~~~ For years after the war, Alpheus hoped to return to Belleau… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in 'as new' condition. ~~~ Index of poets and first lines. 171 pages. ~~~ The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of… Read more about this item

NF/NF. Hardcover with dust jacket in mylar protector. A tight, clean copy. Forward by Edmund Blunden. Biographies of the poets. Index. --- An important anthology compiled with the encouragement of Sassoon and Blunden, and published while many of the poets were still alive. ~~~ "The journey from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fourth of August' to Philip Johnstone's 'High Wood' was a… Read more about this item

Very Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Third Printing. Index to Titles. 303 pages. ~~~ A tight, clean volume with very little edgewear. Spine unchipped & unfaded. A small, neat signature by previous owner on front flyleaf. ~~~ An important early anthology published during the war. Includes work by Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Thomas Hardy, Katharine Tynan, Leslie… Read more about this item

This, the first full-length study of the recently rediscovered poet of the First World War, John Allan Wyeth, contains several in-depth studies of the poetry as well as a wealth of new biographical material. Essays include: ~~ John Allan Wyeth: Lost Poet of the Lost Generation. ~~ Artistry & Authenticity in the War Sonnets of John Allan Wyeth. ~~ A Yank at the… Read more about this item