Ardours and Endurances

by Robert Nichols

31 chapters1h 14mEnglish1917

About this book

This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: "On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'" This particular volume of poetry contains his most well-known poems, and is also perhaps one of the most haunting collections of war poetry in the English language. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (31)

1Introduction

247

2The Summons - I - To --

3The Summons - I - The Past

4The Summons - II - The Reckoning

5Farewell To Place of Comfort

129

6The Approach - I - In the Grass: Halt by Roadside

7The Approach - II - The Day's March

101

8The Approach - III - Nearer

9Battle - I - Noon

10Battle - II - Night Bombardment

298

11Battle - III - Comrades: An Episode

420

12Battle - IV - Behind the Lines: Night, France

13Battle - V - At the Wars

182

14Battle - VI - Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight

156

15Battle - VII - Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn

244

16Battle - VIII - Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches

111

17Battle - IX - The Assault

408

18Battle - X - The Last Morning

19Battle - XI - Fulfilment

114

20The Dead - I - The Burial in Flanders

137

21The Dead - II - Boy

222

22The Dead - III - Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken

292

23The Dead - IV - By the Wood

122

24The Aftermath - I - At the Ebb

134

25The Aftermath - II - Alone

26The Aftermath - III - Thanksgiving

27The Aftermath - IV - Annihilated

28The Aftermath - V - Shut of the Night

118

29The Aftermath - VI - The Full Heart

30The Aftermath - VII - Sonnet: Our Dead

31The Aftermath - VIII - Deliverance

109

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