Poems for Company - October 26, 2026

October 26, 2026 • 00:29:01
Poems for Company - October 26, 2026
Poems for Company
Poems for Company - October 26, 2026

Oct 26 2026 | 00:29:01

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Show Notes

“Bodies from the First World War”: Between 1914 and 1918, British newspapers published poems on a regular basis.  Less experienced writers often promoted the war, relying on jingoism.  This episode samples one such poem and then shifts to more accomplished poems, all written in the nineteen-teens and all focusing on alterations in the bodies of the soldiers.  Jessie Pope, “The Beau Ideal” (1915).  Eva Dobell, “In a Soldiers’ Hospital II: Gramophone Tunes” (1919).  Siegfried Sassoon, “They” (1917).  Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (1920).  All of these poems may be found in The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, George...

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