More Songs By The Fighting Men

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333638436
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book More Songs by the Fighting Men written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from More Songs by the Fighting Men: Soldier Poets We builded better than we knew when we issued the original volume as the climax of our proud association with the soldier poets it was a greater thing than we were then aware of. No literary work of our day has possessed so much genetic force or been of greater in uence. It was well said that Soldier Poets was of greater service to the Allied cause in America than many Blue Books and specially prepared statements: it showed the high clean spirit of ardent, generous youth engaged on a new Crusade. These songs before sunrise gave fresh vitality to poetry and were welcomed by a nation on the eve of rebirth as the promise of a greater intensity of living, a finer perception of beauty, a clearer vision of the undying Splendour after the weary days in which life and art had become dreary and meaningless to the multi tude. Now the birth-throes have become more severe, the spiritual quickening more accentuated, more and more of the poems are personal threnodies, and the sentinel graves of the Poetry Review young men who responded to the call in 1914 now consecrate the long line from Nieuport to Basra. They are a more glorious and more numerous company than the Elizabethans, with whom, in the great comradeship beyond the grave, they still march, an invisible army, with their brothers-in arms who continue the material and spiritual warfare here in the esh, inspiring and directing the fight that will not end with the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."