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Appendix One to A Critical Commentary on a
Survey of World War One Poetry Anthologies

  DR IP DH/JO MH BG JS EB SF PB MS Totals
Owen 28 13 11 8 5 18 7 6 20 9 125
Sassoon 32 11 14 8 13 10 19 0 3 10 120
Rosenberg 9 8 7 4 5 17 3 5 3 10 71
Gurney 3 3 8 9 0 7 1 8 10 2 51
Blunden 5 7 6 4 7 12 6 0 7 3 57
Thomas 10 5 3 5 2 12 2 0 6 4 49
Graves 10 4 7 2 3 2 3 0 1 3 35
Harvey 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5

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Key:

BG Up the Line to Death - Brian Gardner (1964)
DH/JO Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology - Dominic Hibberd & John Onions (1986)
DR Minds at War - David Roberts (1996)
EB 1914-18 in Poetry - E L Black (1970)
IP Men Who March Away - I M Parsons (1965)
JS The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry - Jon Silkin (1979)
MH Poetry of the First World War - Maurice Hussey (1967)
MS Never Such Innocence - Martin Stephen (1993)
PB Poems of the Great War 1914-1918 (no editor) (1998)
SF War Poetry: An Introductory Reader - Simon Featherstone (1995)

Rosenberg, Isaac Break of Day in the Trenches BG, JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, SF, DR, MH, PB, EB
Rosenberg, Isaac Dead Man's Dump BG, JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, SF, DR, MH, PB, EB
Rosenberg, Isaac Returning We Hear the Larks BG, JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, DR, EB
Rosenberg, Isaac Louse Hunting BG, JS, MS, SF, MH
Owen, Wilfred Futility JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, SF, DR, MH, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Strange Meeting BG, JS, IP, DH/JO, SF, DR, MH, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Dulce et Decorum Est BG, JS, IP, DH/JO, DR, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Exposure BG, JS, IP, DH/JO, DR, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Insensibility JS, IP, DH/JO, SF, DR, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Spring Offensive JS, MS, DH/JO, SF, DR, PB, EB
Owen, Wilfred Apologia Pro Poemate Meo JS, MS, DH/JO, SF, DR, PB
Owen, Wilfred Send-Off, The JS, MS, DH/JO, DR, MH, PB
Owen, Wilfred Anthem for Doomed Youth BG, JS, DR, MH, PB
Owen, Wilfred Disabled JS, MS, IP, DR, PB
Owen, Wilfred Sentry, The BG, JS, IP, DR, PB
Brooke, Rupert Soldier, The JS, MS, DH/JO, DR, MH, PB, EB
Brooke, Rupert Dead, The (IV) JS, IP, DR, MH, PB, EB
Brooke, Rupert Peace BG, IP, DH/JO, DR, MH, PB
Brooke, Rupert Dead, The (III) (Rich Dead, The) BG, DR, MH, PB, EB
Grenfell, Julian Into Battle BG, JS, IP, DH/JO, DR, MH, EB
Sorley, C H All the Hills and Vales Along BG, JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, DR, MH
Sorley, C H When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead BG, JS, IP, DH/JO, DR, MH, PB
Sorley, C H Two Sonnets (12 June 1915) JS, MS, IP, PB, EB
Monro, Harold From Youth in Arms - IV. Carrion JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, DR, MH
Read, Herbert My Company BG, IP, SF, DR, MH, EB
Read, Herbert Happy Warrior, The JS, MS, IP, DR, MH
Sassoon, Siegfried Does It Matter ? JS, DH/JO, DR, MH, PB, EB
Sassoon, Siegfried General, The BG, MS, IP, DR, MH, EB
Sassoon, Siegfried Death-Bed, The JS, MS, IP, PB, EB
Sassoon, Siegfried Lamentations JS, DR, MH, PB, EB
Thomas, Edward As The Team's Head Brass JS, MS, IP, DH/JO, DR, EB
Thomas, Edward No One Cares Less Than I BG, MS, DH/JO, DR, MH
Thomas, Edward This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong BG, JS, MS, DR, PB
Blunden, Edmund Come On My Lucky Lads (also known as "Zero") BG, JS, DH/JO, DR, MH
Graves, Robert Two Fusiliers BG, IP, DH/JO, DR, EB
Gurney, Ivor Silent One, The JS, IP, DH/JO, SF, PB
Hardy, Thomas Men Who March Away BG, IP, DH/JO, DR, EB
Hodgson, W N Before Action BG, DH/JO, DR, MH, EB
McCrae, John In Flanders Fields BG, JS, DR, PB, EB

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(This essay has been written by Michèle Fry, 2000 and it is copyright.)

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