ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A collection of poems inspired by World War One, featuring poems by First World War poets including Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen.

Detailed explanation-2: -While the term is applied especially to those who served during the First World War, the term can be applied to a poet of any nationality writing about any war, including Homer’s Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Crimean War and other wars.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined voice has become one of the defining texts of Twentieth Century Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -The war poetry of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney among others, marks a transition in English cultural history.