Description

Hardcover bound in hauntingly bleak duotone green and black pictorial cloth and housed in publishers light tan slipcase. 270 pages. Bibliographical Index of Poets and Index of Titles and First Lines. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, chielfy full page. Edited and introduced by Lyn MacDonald. Printed on khaki colored stock. First Folio Society edition. This compilation of war-time and post war poetry related to the Great War is editied and introduced by historian Lyn MacDonald, author of many popular histories on the war. Major poets include Owen, Sassoon, Graves and Brooke. albeit dozens of lesser known authors are included, with the total of poems being just over 200. The years 1914 to 1918 were soon eclipsed by the shear scale of the Second World War but no body of work has ever equaled, no less superseded, the depth and pathos of the literary output presented herein. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine slipcase.