Muse of fire: World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets

Introduction: The breaking point

Halcyon days : Rupert Brooke and the long peace

"This side of paradise!"

"Under an English heaven"

"Some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England"

Alan Seeger's "rendezvous with death"

Isaac Rosenberg : painter and poet

Isaac Rosenberg's life and death in the trenches

Robert Graves : "The necessary supply of heroes must be maintained at all costs"

Siegfried Sassoon : "Brother Lead and Sister Steel"

Wilfred Owen : "My subject is war, and the pity of war"

Apotheosis

Epilogue.