Complete index of extracts/commentaries		 The Experience of War
- literary responses to the First World War
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 Anthology:
recent extracts added:		 Texts: (extracts and commentaries to follow soon):
  Shakespeare:
Hotspur on 'honour' ;
Falstaff on 'honour';
Henry V at Harfleur;
Henry V at Agincourt

    Rupert Brooke: Peace ; The Soldier ; Fragment

   Isaac Rosenberg: On receiving news of war ;Break of day in the trenches

   Rudyard Kipling: Mary Postgate

  Frederic Manning: Chapter 1 ; Chapter 7 ;   Chapter 10 ; Chapter 16 (complete chapter)

  John Masefield: August 1914

  Charles Hamilton Sorley: When you see millions of the mouthless dead..

 Siegfried Sassoon: Glory of Women
                                        Does it matter?
                                        Banishment
                                        Survivors

Wilfred Owen: Exposure

 

Rebecca West:: The Return of the Soldier - from Chapter 1

W H Auden:  September 1, 1939

Charlotte Mew: The Cenotaph

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The Middle Parts of Fortune
(Her Privates We) 1929/1930:
Frederic Manning


Regeneration 1991
Pat Barker


The Return of the Soldier 1918
Rebecca West
 

 

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