Jessie Pope's War Poems


Leído por Alan Mapstone

Jessie Pope published these poems during the early months of the First World War. They were very popular at the time and the author received many letters of support and gratitude including some from men serving at the Front. The poems illustrate the patriotic and optimistic (and perhaps rather naive) view of the war which many people had at the time.

Later soldier poets like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who had personal experience of the conflict, painted a grimmer picture. Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” was initially dedicated to Pope ("to a certain lady poetess") as a direct rebuttal of her view of the war.

(Summary by Alan Mapstone) (0 hr 49 min)

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The K.A. Boys 1:28 Leído por Alan Mapstone
"No!" 1:38 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Play the Game 1:40 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A Royal Cracksman 1:45 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Lights Out! 1:40 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Outpost 1:33 Leído por Alan Mapstone
To a Taube 1:32 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Ware Wire! 1:49 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Nut 1:54 Leído por Alan Mapstone
De Wet 1:19 Leído por Alan Mapstone
An Over-lord 1:28 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Socks 1:27 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Zeppelin Armada 2:16 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Comrades in Arm-lets 1:54 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A Cossack Charge 1:15 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The War Budget 1:23 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Captive Conquerors 2:01 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Captain von Muller 1:05 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Two Goliaths 1:51 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Blackest Lie 1:30 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A Sing-Song 1:45 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Longest Odds 2:14 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A Dumb Appeal 2:19 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Call 1:21 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Little and Good 1:48 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Marching to Germany 2:40 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The Silent Camp 1:30 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Loot 1:46 Leído por Alan Mapstone
"Bobs" 1:24 Leído por Alan Mapstone