Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War

Plot

The men who marched away to the trenches of the First World War included some of the most talented poets of the century. Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Graves - here they speak in poems full of fervor and anguish, patriotism and disillusionment. Lesser known poets, overlooked in other anthologies, join them in this comprehensive selection. And here, too, are the poets who stayed at home - like Hardy, Lawrence and Yeats - disqualified from active combat but not from battle. Prefaced by an illuminating introduction, "Men Who March Away" is arranged thematically to reflect the whole spectrum of reactions to the experience of war - the glorious bravery, suffering, comradeship and anger, to the uneasy peace of the return home after those four long years. A veteran of the Second World War, I.M. Parsons (1906 - 1980) was a distinguished publisher and author as well as editor, and, with George Spater, wrote "A Marriage of True Minds."