Poetry of the First World War

Dedication to Robert Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, 1916.


Poetry Books of the First World War available online at Google Books:

Allan Seeger's Poems, 1916.

Robert Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, 1916.

World War I Links

Chronology: Timelines

• Timeline (National Archives, UK)
• WWI Timeline (PBS Great War)
• Chief Events of the War Timeline: 1914-1919 (Library of Congress)

Overview: Secondary Sources

• The Great War (PBS Documentary)
• BBC History of Word War I
• The Battle of the Somme (Imperial War Museum)

First Person: Primary Sources

• First World War Sources for History (National Archives, UK)
• World War I Document Archive (Richard Hacken, WWI-L, BYU Library)
• Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures (Library of Congress)
• Stars and Stripes: The American Soldier's  Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 (Library of Congress)
• The Fatal Salient: First World War letters and paintings
  by Harold Sandys Williamson (Imperial War Museum)

Poetry & the Arts:

• The Great War 1914-1918 (Beck Center, Emory University)
• First World War Poetry Digital Archive (Oxford University)
• Art of the First World War (UNESCO, Major Museums of Europe)
• "A Summons to Comradeship" World War I and II Posters and Postcards (University of Minnesota)
• Posters of the Great War (University of South Carolina)
• World War I Sheet Music (Brown University Library)
• World War I Sheet Music Collection (University of Missouri)

Wilfred Owen "The Seed," 1914

Spanish American War Links

• Crucible of Empire (PBS Film)
• The World of 1898 (LOC)
• Chronlogy (World of 1898, LOC)
• Spanish-American War Poetry Books
• Spanish-American War in Motion  Pictures (LOC)