War's Hell!
In order to describe the realities of the violence and suffering of the Great War to the population which had stayed behind in England,...
The Realities of the Conflict
Some of the bloodiest battles of the First World War took place between 1915 and 1916. At the end of April 1915, the Germans used gas...
War and Cricket
Given England’s long and rich sporting heritage, it seems natural that the theme of sport was often used in war poetry from 1914 onwards...
Charles Sorley
If 1915 marked a major change in the sentiments expressed by poetry to the Great War—a move from a patriotic call to arms in the battle...
Rupert Brooke
It is clear that Rupert Brooke’s poems made a major impact in Britain at the beginning of the First World War. Brooke was a pure product...