Interview 6: The War & Poetry with Colin Fisher

History Of The Great War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.6 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Follow Colin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Colin_A_Fisher Great War Group Introductions #5 Poetry and the War - https://greatwargroup.com/product/gwg5/ Selected Readings: Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47411/dead-mans-dump Peace BY RUPERT BROOKE - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13074/peace Epitaphs of the War by Rudyard Kipling - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57409/epitaphs-of-the-war My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling - https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/my-boy-jack/ The West Front https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55031/55031-h/55031-h.htm#THE_WEST_FRONT Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47395/strange-meeting Rural Economy by Edmund Blunden - http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/9518 Festubert, 1916 by Edmund Blunden - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57255/festubert-1916 Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13535/break-of-day-in-the-trenches Starts Upon my Heart by Catherine Reilly - https://www.amazon.com/Scars-Upon-Heart-Catherine-Reilly/dp/1844082253 Now that You Too Must Shortly Go by Eleanor Farieon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another history of the Great War interview.
1:09.0	This time I was joined by Colin Fisher to discuss his addition to the Great War Group Introduction series entitled
1:15.1	The War and Poetry. Poetry occupies a really interesting place in the
1:20.0	history of the First World War. It's a setting of some very well-known poems.
1:24.8	In Flanders Fields and other famous poems are used all the time when discussing the war or
1:30.0	as part of memorialization or commemoration events.
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