A Little History of Literature
“The first great work of poetry that has come down to us, the Iliad, is about nations in conflict. War figures in most of Shakespeare's plays which are not comedies (and it comes up in some of them, too). One of the most graphic descriptions of the ‘horrors of war’ (as the Spanish artist Goya called it) is to be found in Julius Caesar: Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quartered with the hands o...f war No war, however, has produced a greater wealth of English poetry than the war that was called ‘Great’, the First World War of 1914–18.
It was the most blood-drenched war in British history. At the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, a quarter of a million British soldiers were lost in months of fighting in deep mud, with barely five miles of ground won. Of those who came from Britain's public schools (many of them straight from the classroom) to the Front, one in five never returned; instead, their names appeared on their schools' ‘boards of honour’.MoreLess
It was the most blood-drenched war in British history. At the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, a quarter of a million British soldiers were lost in months of fighting in deep mud, with barely five miles of ground won. Of those who came from Britain's public schools (many of them straight from the classroom) to the Front, one in five never returned; instead, their names appeared on their schools' ‘boards of honour’.MoreLess
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