Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Foreground and Background 3
5. Ii. The Early Poets 21
6. III. Realism and Satire: Siegfried Sassoon 71
7. IV. Undertones : Edmund Blunden 113
8. V. Poetry and Pity: Wilfred Owen 155
9. VI. Poetry and Pity: Isaac Rosenberg 210
10. VII. The "Higher Reality": Herbert Read 250
11. VIII. The Heroic Vision: David Jones 284
12. Bibliography 341
13. Index 347