In England the Victorian Age was about to become the past and a new age of worldwide wars of horror and slaughter would envelop and decimate generations, forever staining mankind.
The Century would see the World discover strengths. The Democracies would stand firm against Fascism and later Communism yet still keep its own elite and privileged in power and the rest of us underfoot.
The World was more connected than ever before. Culture accelerated its kaleidoscopic and interwoven journey. Transport delivered people by car and train and then aeroplane to far flung corners of the globe. Empires were at their zenith and ready to fragment with new nations, many troubled, rising from their decay.
The natural world continued to be plundered and pillaged for its resources by industries who pledged ‘more’ and ‘better’ and would clothe and feed a growing world yet sow the seeds now ready to devastate us in our current times.
The globe was as vibrant and violent as troubled and tarnished as it ever was. But new ideas, new political systems, new times changed everything once again.
1 - The Poets of the Early Twentieth Century - Volume 2 - An Introduction
2 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett
3 - 1841-1891 by Joseph Mary Plunkett
4 - If We Return by F W Harvey
5 - The Soldier Speaks by F W Harvey
6 - The Negro Soldiers by Roscoe C Jamison
7 - Into Battle by Julian Grenfell
8 - Prayer For Those on the Staff by Julian Grenfell
9 - Hymn by Fenton Johnson
10 - Tired by Fenton Johnson
11 - Sonnet I by Fernando Pessoa
12 - If, After I Die by Fernando Pessoa
13 - I Have A Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
14 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger
15 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger
16 - The Unseen Planets by Raymond Chandler
17 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler
18 - I Saw A Man This Morning by Patrick Shaw Stewart
19 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot
20 - The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T S Eliot
21 - Preludes by T S Eliot
22 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield
23 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield
24 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield
25 - I Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova
26 - When I Write Poems by Anna Akhmatova
27 - Poetry by Claude McKay
28 - The White House by Claude McKay
29 - The Lynching by Claude McKay
30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney
31 - Crucifix Corner by Ivor Gurney
32 - Serenade by Ivor Gurney
33 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
34 - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
35 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
36 - Journey's End by Zora Neale Hurston
37 - The Dog Tupman by Stella Benson
38 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay
39 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay
40 - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St Vincent Millay
41 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay
42 - Unity by Cesar Vallejo
43 - Love by Edith Sodergran
44 - On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System by Edith Sodergran
45 - Insouciance by Richard Aldington
46 - Goodbye by Richard Aldington
47 - Grey Hairs by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
48 - Lady with Camelias by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
49 - To Mother by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
50 - Back To Rest by Lietenant William Noel Hodgson MC
51 - Before Action by Lieutenant William Noel Hodgson MC
52 - Past One O'Clock by Vladimir Mayakovsky
53 - So This Is How I Turned into a Dog by Vladamir Mayakovsky
54 - Verse for a Certain Dog by Dorothy Parker
55 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker
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