Lest We Forget…
…the University of Oxford has just launched The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This historical period has always fascinated me. In grad school, I studied the literature of the period, and some of it — Wilfred Owen’s poems, Frederic Manning’s novel Middle Parts of Fortune — I return to often. Some of the most powerful writing emerged from that period.
WW1 Gravestones, The Somme – Image © Oxford University
I had a look around the archive, and I was impressed. I urge you to do the same.
Wow. That’s quite the archive. A person could get lost in there. Which I plan to do. Thanks.
Brenda Schmidt
13 Nov 08 at 6:21 pm
Agreed Brenda. In fact, I think you could get lost there on a daily basis and never read the same thing twice. It’s absolutely fascinating.
Ian LeTournneau
13 Nov 08 at 11:24 pm