John Mccrae

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Flanders Fields is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it. "e;In Flanders Fields"e; was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783958647121
• Artikelnr.: 47255362

Autorenporträt

John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe during the First World War. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems, including "In Flanders Fields," perhaps the most famous Canadian poem ever written. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
Related Reading 
A Note on the Text
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
Note of Acknowledgement 
In Flanders Fields 
The Anxious Dead
The Warrior 
Isandlwana 
The Unconquered Dead 
The Captain 
The Song of the Derelict 
Quebec 
Then and Now 
Unsolved 
The Hope of My Heart 
Penance 
Slumber Songs 
The Oldest Drama 
Recompense 
Mine Host 
Equality 
Anarchy 
Disarmament 
The Dead Master 
The Harvest of the Sea 
The Dying of Pere Pierre 
Eventide 
Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit" 
A Song of Comfort 
The Pilgrims 
The Shadow of the Cross 
The Night Cometh 
In Due Season 
John McCrae: An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail
Notes