First World War Poems from the Front by Paul O'Prey
Author:Paul O'Prey [O'Prey, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War I, Poetry, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
ISBN: 9781912423323
Google: LuTvDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
Published: 2016-11-10T22:11:21+00:00
Isaac Rosenberg
1890 â 1918
Isaac Rosenberg grew up in poverty in Bristol and the East End of London. His father, a Lithuanian Jew, was a pedlar. At fourteen Rosenberg was reluctantly apprenticed to an engraver. His ambition was to be an artist and he studied at the Slade School of Art, with support from friends, including Edward Marsh. He went to South Africa in 1914 to seek a better climate for suspected tuberculosis. When he returned in 1915 he could find no work. Although not keen to enlist (âthe idea of killing upsets me a bitâ), he saw the Army as a source of income for himself and his mother. He had âno patriotic convictionsâ. Because of his short stature he was assigned to a Bantam battalion, serving as a private. He was at the front for twenty-one months, with just ten days leave in that time. He experienced discrimination as a Jew in the ranks, and struggled to find time and paper for his writing. He was sometimes unable to send poems home because the censor âwonât be bothered with going through such rubbishâ.
In January 1918 he wrote to Marsh: âWhat is happening to me now is more tragic than the âpassion playâ. Christ never endured what I endure. It is breaking me completely.â He was killed, probably in close combat, on 1 April. He lay unburied for many days until interred in a mass grave.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Ancient, Classical & Medieval | Anthologies |
British & Irish | Japanese & Haiku |
Love Poems | Regional & Cultural |
Themes & Styles | United States |
Women Authors |
The Universe of Us by Lang Leav(14411)
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur(13786)
Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna(8173)
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by r.h. Sin(7499)
Love Her Wild by Atticus(7256)
Smoke & Mirrors by Michael Faudet(5546)
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi(4648)
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace(4534)
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav(4377)
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur(4252)
Memories by Lang Leav(4194)
Good morning to Goodnight by Eleni Kaur(3820)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson(3759)
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose(3719)
Algedonic by r.h. Sin(3533)
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell(3475)
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda(3405)
HER II by Pierre Alex Jeanty(3191)
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook(3067)