Siegfried Sassoon Pedals Away from His Past Life, Stephen Graham lolls in the...
Stephen Graham, intrepid journalist and travel writer, will not officially qualify for inclusion in our great game for quite a while–he will not see France for more than three years. But he did see...
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The Master and the Regulars; Pooh on Armageddon; Vera (shows) appeals to...
Before we get to the Master (that’s Henry James!)[1] a word on the Regulars: as I mentioned in a post a few days ago, we will need, now that war is upon us, to find a few committed...
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J.B. Priestley Enlists; Peter Jackson Takes Offense
Sir John French has acquiesced to Joffre’s plan/prophecy of yesterday afternoon. The strategy was clearly correct, and although Sir John was timid, incompetent, and none too devoted to the cause of...
View ArticleHardy Publishes a Poem and the Poets Disagree; Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Have a...
Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers) What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us; What of the faith...
View ArticlePeter Jackson Earns a Commission; The Nursing Sister Tours a Cathedral; We...
I want to introduce a new writer today, on the date of his first letter home from training camp, a century back. Will Streets had joined a local Kitchener’s Army unit, the Sheffield City Battalion...
View ArticleGhastly Days in Antwerp for Sarah Macnaughtan; Rupert Brooke Arrives
Julian Grenfell and the rest of the Royal Dragoons at last embarked today, a century back. They loaded their horses aboard ship during the wee hours, enjoying a “lovely night with blazing moon, which...
View ArticleVera Brittain on Knowledge and Memory; Gilbert Frankau Starts for France; Alf...
It has been quite a while since we have checked in with Gilbert Frankau, ex-businessman, future novelist, and swaggering subaltern in Kitchener’s army. He, like more than a handful of our officers...
View ArticleLady Feilding’s Impossible Sacrifice; Gilbert Frankau Hymns the War Poet… and...
Today is one of the last days we’ll be hearing from Lady Dorothie Feilding. The war has hit her family again, killing her youngest brother not much more than a year after another brother died at...
View ArticleWilfred Owen: Here is Poetry; Sassoon’s Example Furthered, and Traduced;...
Wilfred Owen is proving himself to be a man at ease with many roles: he runs a military hotel by day, but in his free time he vies with antique dealers, writes chatty letters to his mother, composes...
View ArticleRichard Aldington’s Prayers and Fantasies; Rowland Feilding in the Chateau;...
Several poems could take pride of place today, but neither Vera Brittain‘s wan “Requiem” (written this month) nor the really awful–and loathsome–poem by Gilbert Frankau (carried by The Daily Mail[1] of...
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