If Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon remain the most popular poets of the First World War, David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg have claims to be their betters. In a typically cautious comment, that maker of reputations, T S Eliot, said of Rosenberg that he was ‘perhaps the greatest English poet to be killed in the war’ – a judgement that characteristically left Eliot scope for good relations with other nationalities and those who survived. So why has Rosenberg remained in comparative obscurity to this day? After all, interest in the war has, if anything, increased over the last half century.

Literary Review

Mar 2008

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Peter Washington

Critical Mass

He was Moral, but Was He Great?

But What Was It?

Critical Thinking

Austen’s Onion

War Made Him

Empires of the Mind

Sons of Scotland

A Child Of Nature

Less Is Moore

A Widower Writes

The Man and The Mask

Writer & Co

A Large Corpus

‘These Fragments I Have Shored Against my Ruins’

Remembrance of Paintings Past

Literary Lucubrations

It’s All Relative

Literary Legacies

Age Cannot Wither Us

The Birth of Sredni Vashtar

Out of the Fog

Classics Lite

Kierkegaard & Chocolate