Poems 1914-1919

Maurice Baring

Summary

"Poems, 1914-1919" by Maurice Baring
Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. Though he had an extensive writing career, this book focuses on the poems he penned over the course of a few years. The volume contains: In Memoriam A.H., Diffugere Nives, Julian Grenfell, Pierre, Icarus, Epitaph, August, Vita Nuova, Italy, Seville, Greece, Russia, A June Night in Russia, Harvest in Russia, Dostoyevsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Shelley, Phèdre, The Wounded, Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl, and Le Prince Errant.

Available since: 12/05/2019.

Print length: 176 pages.

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