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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Poetry of the First World War about Editorial, Director, Collector's with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry?
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conversations.value: the author was the Editorial Director of The Collector's Library. He has always worked in the book trade, and he is the author, editor or anthologiser of nearly twenty books.
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conversations.value: Poetry of the First World War
  Famous for his 1911 narrative poem 'The Everlasting Mercy', shocking in its realism, Masefield served as a Red Cross orderly in France and commanded a motor-boat ambulance service at Gallipoli. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1930.
  Newbolt is best known for 'Vitai Lampada' (There's a breathless hush in the Close tonight) and 'Drake's Drum' but the contrasting poems in this anthology give some clue to his many-sided character.
  Nichols was in the Royal Artillery but was invalided home in 1916 with shell-shock. He was a friend of Brooke and Sassoon and preceded Edmund Blunden as Professor of English Literature at the University of Tokyo.
  Owen was serving in the Manchester Regiment when he was invalided home after six months at the Front in 1917 and sent to Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh where he met Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon encouraged his poetry, and he wrote an astonishing body of poems between then and his death, seven days before the Armistice.
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conversations.value: Parry went to Exeter College, Oxford in 1915 as an Open History Scholar but enlisted in January 1916. Few of his poems mention the war directly. He was killed by shellfire near Ypres on 6 May 1917.
  Pemberton enlisted into the Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1914 and was transferred to the Royal Garrison Artillery. He won a Military Cross in 1918 and was killed in action at Sancourt, near Cambrai.
  Rosenberg was the son of Jewish immigrants. He studied at the Slade School of Arts and was taken up by Laurence Binyon and Edward Marsh. He enlisted in 1915. He served on the Western Front though totally unsuited to it by health, short stature and disposition. He was killed on 1 April. He is widely regarded as one of the great poets of the First World War.
  The American Seeger was a contemporary of T.S. Eliot at Harvard and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in August 1914. He fought in Champagne and on the Somme, where he was killed by machine-gun fire on 4th July 1916.
  Considered as having one of the most brilliant minds of his generation, Shaw-Stuart was in the Royal Naval Division, and with Brooke at his death. He served at Gallipoli and the Western Front, and was killed near Cambrai on 30 December 1917.
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conversations.value: Initially rejected because of poor eyesight, West became a Private in the Public Schools Battalion in 1915. Posted to France in November, he was commissioned in 1916 and returned to France where he was killed by a sniper's bullet in April 1917.
  Wilson was a young schoolmaster who had written two novels and some poetry when he enlisted in August 1914. He was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters and rose to the rank of Captain. He was killed in action in the Somme valley on 23 March 1918.
  Winterbotham was a barrister who stood for Parliament in 1913. He was commissioned in the Gloucestershire Regiment in October 1914 and served in France between March 1915 and August 1916. He was killed on the Somme on 14 August 1916.
  Yeats was the greatest Anglo-Irish poet of his time. The Irish Rising in 1916 moved him more than did the First World War, and he assumed the role of leader of the Irish literary renaissance. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.