{"id":16774,"date":"2022-08-07T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=212631"},"modified":"2022-08-07T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T11:34:08","slug":"first-world-war-poets-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/first-world-war-poets-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"First World War poets: everything you wanted to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Matt Elton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Sunday, 07 August 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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How much has our view of the First World War<\/a> \u2013 one of mud, trenches and futility \u2013 been shaped by the work of a handful of poets? How did the British public respond to poems criticising the war effort? And why have some war poets been remembered, while others have been forgotten? In our latest \u2018Everything you wanted to know\u2019 episode, the University of Exeter\u2019s Professor Catriona Pennell answers listener questions on First World War poetry \u2013 and argues that we should broaden our horizons beyond Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more about 5 WW1 poets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/08\/HistoryExtra20220807-fb92575.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
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