It is a brilliant organization, and the excellent explication of the war’s impact on these sensitive men adds an important human dimension to World War I. He is the author of several novels and works of history and biography, including Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia, Some Desperate Glory: The Fi. Their poetic voices, literally from the trenches, speak volumes of description in terse stanzas. Max Egremont was born in 1948 and studied modern history at Oxford University. Max Egremonts Some Desperate Glory presents the story of World War I. Not all the poems are masterworks, but the aggregation according to the war’s progression helps the reader sympathize with the emotions and increasing trauma suffered by these young men as their exposure increased. Buy a cheap copy of Some Desperate Glory: The First World. Then the poems are grouped according to year of the war, with an introduction to each year continuing each poet’s biography. Each poet is first given a brief biography. 4.70 Average 83390 Reviews Product Description & Details Review this book Author Biography Product Description While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The genius of the book is that it puts these poems in wonderful context. All those selected actually fought several of the poets died in action. Some Desperate Glory collects several poems from the eleven of the most well-known poets: Brooke, Thomas, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg among others. The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of. Many of their poems are still famous today – ‘The Soldier’, by Rupert Brooke, is consistently one of England’s most loved. Max Egremonts Some Desperate Glory presents the story of World War I through the lives and words of its poets. The horrors of The Great War were eloquently captured by several of England’s young poets, who signed up in a flush of patriotism but were soon disillusioned by reality.

Some Desperate Glory by Max Egremont