First World War Poets (National Portrait Gallery Companions)

This collection of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record the First World War in poetry draws on letters, memoirs and portraits. Key poems by each of the poets are included, alongside images of Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Ivor Gurney, to provide a new approach to one of the most devastating events of the last century.