The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War


Gelesen von David Wales

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This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) set three of the poems (The Fourth Of August, To Women, For The Fallen) in his cantata The Spirit of England (1915-1917). Since its composing and musical setting, For The Fallen has held an honored place in every November 11th Remembrance Day for Britain and the Commonwealth (Memorial Day for Americans). Moved by the opening of the Great War and the already high number of casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, in 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote his For the Fallen, with its Ode of Remembrance, as he was visiting the cliffs on the north Cornwall coast,… The third and fourth verses of the poem (although often just the fourth) have so been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of nation.
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The Fourth Of August 1:59 Gelesen von David Wales
Strange Fruit 1:55 Gelesen von David Wales
The New Idol 1:13 Gelesen von David Wales
The Harvest 1:14 Gelesen von David Wales
To The Belgians 1:56 Gelesen von David Wales
Louvain 2:06 Gelesen von David Wales
To Goethe 1:37 Gelesen von David Wales
At Rheims 2:18 Gelesen von David Wales
To The Enemy Complaining 1:14 Gelesen von David Wales
To Women 1:33 Gelesen von David Wales
For The Fallen 2:04 Gelesen von David Wales
Ode For September 6:20 Gelesen von David Wales