Andrew Motion reading and discussing the tradition of First World War poetry. New realities and a new poetry.

2 Outubro 2017, 08:00 Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Andrew Motion reading and discussing the tradition of First World War poetry.


New realities and a new poetry.   
                         
Introducing some poets and poems of the First World War, with special attention devoted to: Rupert Brooke, ‘Rain’ (1916), Siegfried Sassoon, ‘They’ (1916, 1917),Isaac Rosenberg, ‘Break of Day in the Trenches' (1916, publ.1922)Wilfred Owen, ‘Strange Meeting' (May? 1918, publ.1920).