Art and Literature

Art and Literature

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• Poetry

Art and Literature Links

• Anthem for Doomed Youth An online exhibit presented by Brigham Young University, commemorating the writers and literature of the First World War.
  
• First World War.org - Prose & Poetry Sub-section of general First World War history site, with detailed biographies of the War Poets, plus relevant war literature-related essays.
  
• Literary Ambulance Drivers Steve Ruediger's research and discussion of why so many famous writers were ambulance drivers in the First World War. Includes a list of literary figures who drove ambulances during the war.
  
• The Great War Diaries of S.T. Eachus Describes the adventures of a British signalman during the First World War. Includes background info, complete text, and related links.
  
• The Hydra: The Journal of the Craglockhart War Hospital. An Oxford University site featuring photographs of pages rather than e-text. Contributors included Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
  
• Under Fire (Le Feu), Henri Barbusse, 1917 Complete 1917 translation of the 1916 French battlefield classic.
  
• Punch: British Propaganda from 1914-1915 A collection of articles, poems, and stories which appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine, in 1914 and 1915.
  
• Musical Scores An interesting collection of old time victrola music, including sheet music ('Tipperary', 'My Buddy'), and other WWI era favorites. Commercial site.
  
• Propaganda Postcards of the Great War The site features a collection of war-themed postal cards produced during World War 1 (1914 - 1919). Eventually over 2,500 cards will be displayed in an organized fashion. These cards are mementos of a world at war during the second decade of the 20th century.