Jessie Pope

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18
Mar
Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles

Tags : Dulce et Decorum Est, Henry Newbolt, Jessie Pope, John McCrae, Julian Grenfell, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, The Ballad of Purchase Money, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen

It is, perhaps, ironic that Jessie Pope should share her date of birth (although not the year) with Wilfred Owen, who vilified her and her type in his poem Dulce et Decorum Est. Her reputation today mainly persists due to Wilfred Owen’s original dedication of that poem to her, and his criticism therein of her […]

The Red Sweet Wine of Youth – The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets

The Red Sweet Wine of Youth by Nicholas Murray cover

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23
Jun
Author : Lawrance, W Category : Books, Reviews

Tags : Book Review, Charles Hamilton Sorley, David Jones, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Ivor Gurney, Julian Grenfell, Nicholas Murray, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, T E Hulme, The Red Sweet Wine of Youth, Wilfred Owen

A group portrait of the poets of the First World War by Nicholas Murray Published by: Little, Brown Cover Price: £25.00 All references given below refer to the hardback edition. Before reviewing this book, I thought I would read the opinions of others and, upon doing so, discovered it had been almost universally praised as […]

Literary Connections No.3 – Julian Grenfell

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19
May
Author : web.admin Category : Literary Connections

Tags : Julian Grenfell, Katharine Asquith, Margot Asquith, Ronald Knox, Seigfried Sassoon, war poetry

Our Literary Connections No.3, showing the links between Julian Grenfell, Ronald Knox, Siegfried Sassoon, Katharine Asquith (née Horner) and Margot Asquith.

Brooke & Grenfell – Joined in the bright company of Heaven

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18
May
Author : web.admin Category : Special Features

Tags : 1914 Sonnets, Billy Grenfell, Edward Marsh, Grantully Castle, Into Battle, Julian Grenfell, Rupert Brooke, The Soldier, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

These two young men both died in the first half of 1915, at the age of 27; both had written poems which are now widely studied; both came from fairly privileged backgrounds. However, today almost everyone has heard of Rupert Brooke, while Julian Grenfell’s name is relatively unfamiliar to most, unless they are actually studying […]

The Dardanelles

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17
May
Author : web.admin Category : 1915, History

Tags : Alan P Herbert, Anzacs, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Geoffrey Dearmer, Julian Grenfell, Nowell Oxland, Patrick Shaw-Stewart, Rupert Brooke, Winston Churchill

While a great deal of the action during the First World War took place on the Western Front, there were many among the Allies who sought to divert attention to somewhere else and it was generally agreed that the best place for this was to launch an offensive in the Dardanelles, against the Turks. This […]

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The Red Sweet Wine of Youth – The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets

Literary Connections No.3 – Julian Grenfell

Brooke & Grenfell – Joined in the bright company of Heaven

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