Poetry of the Second World War - An Anthology

This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction provides historical context and biographical accounts of each poet.

List of contents

• Frances Cornford (1886-1960)


• Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)


• T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)


• Ruth Pitter (1897-1992)


• Noël Coward (1899-1973)


• Stevie Smith (1902-1971)


• C. Day Lewis (1904-1972)


• Norman Cameron (1905-1953)


• Margery Lea (1905-?)


• W. H. Auden (1907-1973)


• Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)


• E. J. Scovell (1907-1999)


• Stephen Spender (1909-1995)


• Robert Garioch (1909-1981)


• Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill-Eain] (1911-1996)


• John Jarmain (1911-1944)


• Anne Ridler (1912-2001)


• F. T. Prince (1912-2003)


• Henry Reed (1914-1986)


• Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)


• Alun Lewis (1915-1944)


• Charles Causley (1917-2003)


• Hamish Henderson (1919-2002)


• Keith Douglas (1920-1944)


• Edwin Morgan (1920-2010)


• Drummond Allison (1921-1943)


• Sidney Keyes (1922-1943)


• Karen Gershon (1923-1993)

About the author

Tim Kendall taught in Oxford, Newcastle and Bristol before taking up a professorship at the University of Exeter in 2006. He has been Head of Department, Director of Research, Director of Impact, and is now the Academic Director of Special Collections. His main research interests are war poetry, William Golding's fiction, nature writing, and archives.

Product details

• Authors: Kendall, Tim (Professor of English Kendall
• Assisted by: Kendall (Editor), Kendall Tim (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198729082
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872908-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets