TY - BOOK AU - Sassoon,Siegfried TI - War poems SN - 9780486826820 (softcover) AV - PR6037.A86 A6 2018 U1 - 821.912 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Mineola, New York PB - Dover Publications, Inc. KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Great Britain KW - Literature and the war KW - POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / Military / World War I KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - War poetry, English KW - Poetry KW - War poetry KW - lcsh N1 - Machine generated contents note: Absolution -- Brothers -- The Dragon and the Undying -- France -- To Victory -- When I'm among a Blaze of Lights N2 - "At the dawn of World War I, poet Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War. Over eighty works include "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," and "Base Details.""-- ER -