Armistice
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Armistice

A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace

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Armistice

A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace

About this book

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search for truce and ceasefire. In 100 poems, our most cherished poets of the Great War speak alongside those from other conflicts and cultures, so that we hear some of the lesser-heard voices of war, including wives, families, those left behind. These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict. At the same time, in armistice, they become a record of renewal and a testimony to hope.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2018
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571347094
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. SARA TEASDALE There Will Come Soft Rains
  7. SIEGFRIED SASSOON Everyone Sang
  8. RUTH PITTER The Military Harpist
  9. MARION ANGUS Remembrance Day
  10. MAHMOUD DARWISH Murdered and Unknown
  11. WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA The End and the Beginning
  12. IVOR GURNEY The Bugle
  13. MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN For a Girl
  14. IOAN ALEXANDRU The End of the War
  15. AMY LOWELL Convalescence
  16. SARAH MAGUIRE The Pomegranates of Kandahar
  17. CAROLA OMAN Ambulance Train 30
  18. ALAN GILLIS Progress
  19. JOHN HEWITT from Freehold
  20. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Under the Greenwood Tree
  21. CHARLOTTE MEW May, 1915
  22. JOHN BALABAN In Celebration of Spring
  23. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Peace
  24. CHARLES CAUSLEY At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux
  25. SEAN O’BRIEN The Sunken Road
  26. WILFRED OWEN Greater Love
  27. EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music
  28. SIEGFRIED SASSOON Reconciliation
  29. WALT WHITMAN Reconciliation
  30. ROBERT GRAVES Two Fusiliers
  31. PAUL MULDOON Truce
  32. SIMON ARMITAGE The Handshake
  33. SAPPHO To an Army Wife in Sardis
  34. EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY Conscientious Objector
  35. SAADI YOUSSEF Night in Al-Hamra
  36. CHARLOTTE MEW The Cenotaph
  37. DOROTHY PARKER Penelope
  38. LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel
  39. DENISE LEVERTOV Making Peace
  40. EILÉAN NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN Stronghold
  41. WENDELL BERRY The Peace of Wild Things
  42. CARL SANDBURG Grass
  43. HELEN WADDELL April 20th, 1939
  44. SHERMAN ALEXIE The Powwow at the End of the World
  45. MICHAEL LONGLEY Ceasefire
  46. MARGARET SACKVILLE Reconciliation
  47. MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN The Armistice
  48. EDGELL RICKWORD War and Peace
  49. HENRY VAUGHAN Peace
  50. THOMAS HARDY Christmas: 1924
  51. LINDA PASTAN At Gettysburg
  52. C. K. STEAD Another Horatian Ode
  53. MICHAEL LONGLEY All of These People
  54. ANONYMOUS Death is Before Me Today
  55. ROSE MACAULAY Peace
  56. HUGH McCRAE Song of the Rain
  57. E. HILTON YOUNG Return
  58. GODFREY ELTON The War Memorial
  59. MARGARET POSTGATE COLE Afterwards
  60. JOHN BALABAN After Our War
  61. PAUL DEHN Armistice
  62. MICHAEL HAMBURGER After a War
  63. THOMAS HARDY ‘And There Was a Great Calm’
  64. DOUGLAS DUNN Souvenirs of Versailles
  65. IVAN V. LALIĆ The Spaces of Hope
  66. ROY McFADDEN Post-War
  67. CECILY MACKWORTH En Route
  68. FREDA LAUGHTON The Evacuees
  69. HERBERT READ 1945
  70. EDWIN MUIR The Horses
  71. EDMUND BLUNDEN Ancre Sunshine
  72. IMTIAZ DHARKER Armistice
  73. KATHLEEN RAINE Heroes
  74. JOHN JARMAIN El Alamein
  75. RALPH KNEVET The Vote
  76. OSBERT SITWELL Peace Celebration
  77. DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE Remembrance Day in the Dales
  78. VIOLET JACOB The Field by the Lirk o’ the Hill
  79. HELEN MORT Armistice
  80. KŌICHI IIJIMA The End of the War to End All Wars
  81. ELEANOR FARJEON Peace
  82. ANONYMOUS Admonition to a Chief
  83. GEORGE HERBERT Peace
  84. CARL SANDBURG A. E. F.
  85. MARY STUDD Paris, 1919
  86. CONRAD AIKEN The Quarrel
  87. MARY JEAN CHAN Truce
  88. ROBERT HERRICK The Coming of Good Luck
  89. SEAMUS HEANEY from The Cure at Troy
  90. ALICE OSWALD Prayer
  91. JO SHAPCOTT Phrase Book
  92. EDWARD THOMAS Thaw
  93. DEREK WALCOTT The Season of Phantasmal Peace
  94. PAUL MULDOON Armistice Day
  95. DALJIT NAGRA where’s.
  96. EMILY DICKINSON ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers
  97. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope
  98. EDWARD THOMAS Adlestrop
  99. MAURA DOOLEY Quiver
  100. W. B. YEATS The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  101. HENRY REED The Return
  102. ROBERT BURNS Auld Lang Syne
  103. SEIICHI NIIKUNI Anti-War
  104. ZAFFAR KUNIAL Poppy
  105. JACKIE KAY Outlook Tower
  106. Acknowledgements
  107. Index of Authors
  108. Index of Titles and First Lines
  109. About the Author
  110. By the Same Author
  111. Copyright

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