Some Desperate Glory (34 page)

 

‘A Fallodon Memory'

‘A Private'

‘A Terre'

‘A Worm Fed on the Heart of Corinth'

‘Absolution'

‘After-Glow'

‘All the Hills and Vales Along'

‘Anthem for Doomed Youth'

‘Arms and the Boy'

‘As the Team's Head-Brass'

‘August 1914'

 

‘Bach and the Sentry'

‘Ballad of the Three Spectres'

‘Battery Moving Up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn'

‘Blighters'

‘Break of Day in the Trenches'

 

‘Cock-Crow'

‘Counter-Attack'

‘Crickley Hill'

 

‘Dawn on the Somme'

‘Dead Men's Dump'

‘Disabled'

‘Dulce et Decorum Est'

 

‘Everyone Sang'

‘Exposure'

 

‘First Time In'

‘Fragment'

‘Futility'

 

‘Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm'

 

‘Home' (1915)

‘Home' (1916)

 

‘I Saw England – July Night'

‘I Saw his Round Mouth's Crimson'

‘In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)'

‘Insensibility'

‘Into Battle'

‘It is Near Toussaints'

 

‘Laventie'

‘Letter to Robert Graves'

‘Lights Out'

‘Louse Hunting'

 

‘Marching – As Seen from the Left File'

 

‘1916 Seen from 1921'

 

‘On Passing the New Menin Gate'

‘On Receiving News of the War': Cape Town

 

‘Peace'

‘Photographs (To Two Scots Lads)'

‘Poem for End'

‘Prayer for Those on the Staff'

‘Preface'

 

‘Rain'

‘Recalling War'

‘Report on Experience'

‘Returning, We Hear the Larks'

 

‘Sergeant-Major Money'

‘Servitude'

‘Soldier: Twentieth Century'

‘Song'

‘Strange Meeting'

‘Strange Service'

‘Such, Such is Death'

 

‘Thanksgiving'

‘The Bohemians'

‘The Combe'

‘The Dead'

‘The Death Bed'

‘The Festubert Shrine'

‘The General'

‘The Interview'

‘The Kiss'

‘The Last Day of Leave (1916)'

‘The Mangel-Bury'

‘The Owl'

‘The Redeemer'

‘The Rock Below'

‘The Secret'

‘The Silent One'

‘The Soldier'

‘The Sun Used to Shine'

‘The Troop Ship'

‘The Trumpet'

‘The Unknown Bird'

‘The Watchers'

‘The Zonnebeke Road'

‘This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong'

‘Through These Pale Cold Days'

‘To Any Dead Officer'

‘To Germany'

‘To his Love'

‘To the Poet Before Battle'

‘To the Prussians of England'

‘Two Voices'

 

‘Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau'

 

‘War Books'

‘When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead'

 

Index

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Abbeville

Abercrombie, Lascelles

Albert, Belgium

Alexandria

Amiens

Amis, Kingsley

Antwerp

Arnold, Thomas

Arras; battle of (1917)

Asquith, Arthur

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith: and war threat; at fancy-dress ball; succeeded as PM by Lloyd George

Asquith, Raymond

Asquith, (Lady) Violet (
later
Bonham Carter)

Auden, W. H.; ‘The Malverns'

Austria

 

Balfour, Arthur James

Bangour, Scottish borders

Baring, Maurice: ‘Julian Grenfell' (poem)

Barnett, Correlli

Beaumont Hamel

Belgium: invaded and occupied by Germany; German atrocities reported; part flooded

Belloc, Hilaire

Bennett, Arnold

Bertrancourt

Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von

Bihecourt

Billing, Noel Pemberton

Binyon, Laurence: xi; ‘For the Fallen'; (ed.)
Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Blackadder
(TV programme)

Blomfield, Sir Reginald

Bloomsbury: cynicism

Blunden, Claire

Blunden, Edward: in Kent villages; romantic view of countryside; at Christ's Hospital; background; enlistment and commission; in France; awarded Military Cross; on trench names; pride in British army achievements; praises Sassoon; on Third Ypres; at Third Ypres; in Flanders; poetry published; on Graves's claim to importance; reads Sassoon's
Counter-Attack
; at war's end; marriage; at Oxford after war; post-war poetic style; edits Gurney poems; Marsh publishes in Georgian anthology; Sassoon on; teaches in Japan; praises Owen's
Poems
; reputation; friendship with Sassoon; remembers virtues of First War; revisits Flanders; elected Oxford Professor of Poetry; death; drawn to pacificism before Second World War; ‘Almswomen'; ‘The Festubert Shrine'; ‘Gouzeaucourt: The Deceitful Calm'; ‘In Festubert';
1916 Seen from 1921
; ‘The Midnight Skaters'; ‘Report on Experience'; ‘The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill'; ‘Two Voices';
Undertones of War
; ‘Vlameringhe: Passing the Chateau'; ‘The Watchers'; ‘The Zonnebeke Road'

Boer War (1899–1902)

Bomberg, David

Bottomley, Gordon

Brest Litovsk, treaty of (1918)

Brewer, Herbert

Britain: avoids conscription; effect of war on; and impending war; pre-war unrest and change in; empire; public school system; and outbreak of war; introduces conscription; strategy after Somme; retreat before German spring offensive (1918); justification for entering war

British Expeditionary Force: casualties

Brittain, Vera

Britten, Benjamin:
War Requiem

Brooke, Rupert: joins Fabians; and Isaac Rosenberg; published in
Georgian Poetry
; romantic life-style; background; and outbreak of war; reputation; appearance; affair with Ka Cox; moodiness; nervous collapse; visits Germany; travels to USA and South Seas; on English peace; Sassoon meets; Grenfell praises; Marsh helps to enlist; on ‘foreign field'; sees action at Antwerp; returns to England; sent to Dardanelles; death and obituary; poetry criticized; inexperience; spirit of poetry; Gurney on; Gurney dedicates book to; Virginia Woolf on; memorialized; post-war reputation; in Yeats's
Oxford Book of Modern Verse
; in Larkin's Oxford anthology;
Collected Poems
; ‘The Dead'; ‘Fragment'; ‘Heaven';
1914 and Other Poems
(ed. Marsh); ‘The Old Vicarage at Grantchester'; ‘Peace'; ‘The Soldier'; ‘Tiare Tahiti'

Browne, Denis

Browning, Robert

Brunswick manifesto

Buchan, John

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron

 

Cambrai, battle of (1917)

Cambridge Magazine

Carpenter, Edward

Carrington, Charles

Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich

Chambrin

Charterhouse school

Chatto and Windus (publishers)

Chemin des Dames

Chesterton, G. K.

Christ's Hospital school

Churchill (Sir) Winston: Marsh serves as private secretary; forms Royal Naval Division; defends action at Antwerp; plans Dardanelles campaign

Cohen, Mrs (Rosenberg's benefactor)

Cohen, Reuben (‘Crazy')

Colefax, Sibyl, Lady

Cornford, Frances

Cox, Ka

Craiglockart Sanatorium, Scotland: Owen and Sassoon at

Crécy

Cuinchy (village)

Cunard, Nancy

 

Daily Herald

Dardanelles Straits

Davies, W. H.

Day Lewis, Cecil

de la Mare, Walter

Delville Wood

Dent, Edward Joseph

Desborough, Ethel, Lady (Grenfells' mother);
Pages from a Family Journal

Desborough, William Henry Grenfell, Baron (Grenfells' father)

Domvast

Donne, John

Douglas, Lord Alfred

Douglas, Keith; ‘Aristocrats'; ‘Desert Flowers'

Drinkwater, John

Dunkerley, William
see
Oxenham, John

Dymock, Gloucestershire

 

Edward VII, King

Eliot, T. S.;
The Waste Land

 

Farjeon, Eleanor

Festubert

Finzi, Gerald

First World War: poets; casualties; western front; outbreak; ends; evaluated

Flanders: Allied retreat (1914)

Flecker, James Elroy

Foch, Marshal Ferdinand

Ford, Ford Madox;
Parade's End

Forster, E. M.: on Brooke's sonnets; in Alexandria;
Howards End
;
The Longest Journey

France: and outbreak of war; famines and poor harvests; impoverished nobility; social ambitions; relations with Austria; German advance through (1914); in American War of Independence; financial state; role of monarchy; and defence of Verdun; casualties; army mutinies; part-occupied by Germany; counter-attack (1918); censorship; public opinion in

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria

Fraser, Claude Lovat

French, Field Marshal Sir John

Freyberg, Bernard, VC

Fricourt

Frost, Robert;
North of Boston

Fry, Roger

 

Gallipoli

Gardner, Brian: (ed.)
Up the Line to Death

gas (poison)

Georgian Poetry
(ed. Marsh)

Germany: and outbreak of war; unification; Sorley in; student fraternities; supports Austria-Hungary; Robert Graves in; Brooke visits; early advance in France (1914); war aims; attack on Verdun; casualties; territorial occupation; negotiates peace with Soviet Russia; strength in 1917–18; spring offensive (1918); control of Romanian oilfields; internal unrest; repelled; sense of injustice over Treaty of Versailles

Gertler, Mark

Gibson, Wilfred

Gosse, Edmund; ‘War and Literature' (essay)

Goya, Francisco

Grantchester

Graves, Robert: Marsh reads; wins school boxing cup; background; schooling; enlists; commissioned and trained; links with Germany; in action; meets Robert Frost at Poetry Bookshop; in France; Sassoon meets; unpopularity; at battle of Loos; on German superior military equipment; inexperience; influence on Sassoon; absent from Somme; on Sassoon's charge at Somme; wounded; and Sassoon's war protest and treatment; visits Sassoon at Craiglockhart; on Nichols; marriage to Nancy Nicholson; Sassoon leaves money legacy to; Sassoon's ‘Letter to'; at war's end; Nichols reads works in USA; admires Brooke; at Oxford after war; post-war poetic style; infatuation with Laura Riding; life in Oxfordshire; in Roberts's Faber anthology; post-war activities and preoccupations; visits Hardy; returns to England and Majorca; on Sassoon's homosexuality; views on First War; death; affection for north Wales;
But It Still Goes On
;
Fairies and Fusiliers
(collection);
Goodbye to All That
; ‘The Last Day of Leave';
Over the Brazier
(collection); ‘Recalling War'; ‘The Rock Below'; ‘Sergeant-Major Money';
Whipperginny
(collection)

Great War, The
(BBC series)

Grenfell, Billy

Grenfell, Julian: background; in South Africa; in India; mocks Edward Marsh; political ambitions; on outbreak of war; poetry; wishes to return from South Africa on outbreak of war; serves in France and Belgium; letters printed in
The Times
; boxing; on Brooke's ‘The Soldier'; declines staff post; death; as hero poet; later reputation; ‘Into Battle'; ‘Prayer for Those on the Staff'

Grey, Sir Edward

Gunston, Leslie

Gurney, Ivor: depression and mental problems; education; in Cotswolds; romantic view of countryside; background; musical talent; serves as private soldier; rejected for army service; enlists; criticizes Brooke; arrives in France; letter-writing; relishes army comradeship; training in England; in action; on brutality of war; sets songs to music; wounded in arm; bequeaths copyrights; told of superior French staff; at war's end; post-war life; detained in asylums; sets Edward Thomas poems to music; death (1937); reputation; post-war poetry; ‘After War'; ‘After-Glow'; ‘Bach and the Sentry'; ‘Ballad of the Three Spectres'; ‘The Bohemians'; ‘Crickley Hill'; ‘First Time In';
Five Elizabethan Songs
(music); ‘I Saw England – July Night'; ‘The Interview'; ‘It is Near Toussaints'; ‘Laventie'; ‘The Mangel-Bury'; ‘Memory'; ‘Pain; ‘Photographs (To Two Scots Lads)';
Poem for End
; ‘Requiem'; ‘Servitude';
Severn and Somme
(collection); ‘The Silent One'; ‘Song'; ‘Song and Pain'; ‘Strange Service'; ‘Time and the Soldier'; ‘To his Love'; ‘To the Poet Before Battle'; ‘To the Prussians of England'; ‘War Books';
War's Embers
(collection)

Gurney, Ronald

 

Habsburg Empire (Austria-Hungary)

Haig, General Sir Douglas

Hall, Edna Clark

Hamilton, General Sir Ian