War poetry Book

	General Editor's Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
	War and British Culture 1914-82	7
	Englishness	25
	Popular Culture	38
	Politics	52
	British Cultures I: Provincial Intellectuals and Jewish Radicals	64
	British Cultures II: Scottish Cultures and Poets in Exile	82
	Gender	95
	Strange Service	120
	De Profundis	121
	Strange Hells	122
	First Time In	122
	The Silent One	123
	Swift and Slow	124
	The Mangel-Bury	124
	While I Write	125
	Apologia Pro Poemate Meo	127
	Insensibility	128
	Strange Meeting	130
	Smile, Smile, Smile	132
	Futility	133
	Spring Offensive	133
	This Is My Story	135
	My Little Wet Home in the Trench	136
	Tribute to the 11th Division	137
	On the Red Road to Hooge	138
	Send 'Em Along	140
	The Jew	143
	Break of Day in the Trenches	144
	Louse Hunting	145
	Dead Man's Dump	146
	Girl to Soldier on Leave	149
	from Part 7 of In Parenthesis	151
	After Troy	165
	from Part I of The Tribute	166
	from Section I of The Walls Do Not Fall	167
	from My Company	170
	To a Conscript of 1940	171
	Going Westwards	174
	Alasdair MacLeod	176
	Heroes	177
	Death Valley	179
	All Day It Has Rained ...	181
	The Journey	182
	The Jungle	183
	from Interlude: Opening of an Offensive, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica	188
	Seventh Elegy: Seven Good Germans, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica	190
	Tenth Elegy: The Frontier, Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica	193
	Victory Hoe-Down	195
	The 51st Highland Division's Farewell to Sicily	197
	Ballad of Anzio	198
	The Blubbing Buchmanite	200
	Simplify me when I'm dead	203
	Mersa	204
	Cairo Jag	205
	Sportsmen	206
	Dead Men	207
	How to Kill	208
	Lecturing to Troops	210
	Big City	211
	Egypt	212
	from Exile's Letter	213
	from Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916)	219
	from Sorel, Marx, and the War (1916)	222
	from To Hell with Culture (1941)	225
	from Secondary Elaboration (1925)	228
	from The Poets of World War II (1949)	232
	from Jewish Factor in the War and Settlement (1916)	235
	from The Ruined Romantics (1916)	236
	from the Preface to In Parenthesis (1937)	239
	from Three Guineas (1938)	243
	from Notes on Culture and the War (1940)	245
	from Poetry and Two Wars (1941)	247
	from Bless 'em All: A Piece About Army Songs (1941)	252
	from a letter to J. C. Hall (1943)	255
	from In Memory of Richard Hillary (1943)	257
	from Citizens in War - and After (1945)	261
	from Recent Verse: London and Cairo (1944)	266
	from An Anatomy of Exile (1946)	268
	Further reading	271
	Bibliography	273
	Index	284