index
Oppen, George 617, 623
‘OfBeing Numerous’ 617–18
‘Route’ 617
Orwell, George 636
and Auden’s ‘Spain 1937’ 275, 286, 365
and community 376
on Hardy 44
and patriotism 367–8
Homage to Catalonia 248
‘Inside the Whale’ 365
The Lion and the Unicorn 367
‘Notes on Nationalism’ 373–4
Osborn, E. B. 144–5, 147, 426–7
O Seaghda, Barra 709
O Searcaigh, Cathal: ́
and the past 560
and role of poet 559–60
and Rosenberg 560
‘For Isaac Rosenberg’ 545, 560–3
O Siadhail, Michael 560 ́
Otero, Blas de 513
Ouditt, Sharon 104, 105, 113
on Barker 208–9
Owen, Colin 87
Owen, Geraint Dyfnallt 343
Owen, Harold 81, 116
Owen, Susan 120
Owen, Wilfred 35, 36, 102
and afflatus 127, 128
and anger 502
and appropriation of poems of 115–16
and body in pain 81–2, 84
and compassion 131
and cultural prominence of 114–15
and death of 120
and death of servant 73–4, 83
and fatalism 132
and feeling 83
and glorification of battle 126
on Graves 220
and heterogeneity of work 121
and homoeroticism 80, 86, 311
and Hughes’ comparison with Douglas 531
and image as war poet 422
and importance of 133
and influence of Decadents 79–80
and inwardness of war 130
and lifetime publications 118–19
and military hospital 80–1
and misogyny 446
and motives for poems 124
and need for closer reading of 115
and obsession with pain and illness 81–2
and pity 130–2, 289, 564
and plans for future 120–1
and pleasure 88
and poetic language 85, 86
and poet’s task 130–1, 351, 431
and posthumous literary career 118
and preface for war poems 130–1, 289, 306,
706
and published collections of 119
and questioning of achievement of 33
and religious faith 306
and Sassoon’s influence 121–2, 210
and sense experience 73–4, 78–9, 82–3, 88
and Shakespeare 137–8
and shell shock 120
and soldier-civilian distance 125
and sounds 84
and suffering 483, 503
aesthetics of 484–5
and tensions within poetry 87
and trench experience 75, 76, 119–20
on Victoria Cross 10
and war poetry anthologies 422, 429, 430
and wartime career 119–21
‘1914’ 124, 179
‘A Terre’ 119, 462
‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ 124, 126, 137,
257–8
‘Apologia pro Poemate Meo’ 80, 89, 124–8
‘Arms and the Boy’ 123
‘Disabled’ 80, 119, 121, 122–4, 127, 172–3,
311
‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ 83–5, 119, 124, 125,
126, 311, 364, 423, 564–5
‘Earth’s wheels run oiled with blood’ 128
‘Exposure’ 85–7
‘Futility’ 98, 118, 121, 124, 499
‘Greater Love’ 79–80, 90, 124
‘Hospital Barge’ 118, 124
The Hydra78, 118
‘Identity Disc’ 124
‘Insensibility’ 119, 126
‘Inspection’ 122, 124, 148, 150
‘Mental Cases’ 82, 119, 121, 123
‘Miners’ 118, 123, 503
‘On Seeing a Piece of Our Heavy Artillery
Brought into Action’ 123
‘Smile, Smile, Smile’ 127
‘Song of Songs’ 118
‘Spring Offensive’ 87–8, 119, 125, 129–30,
471, 492–3
‘Strange Meeting’ 119, 121, 123, 125, 128–9,
258, 510
‘The Chances’ 119, 122, 123
‘The Dead Beat’ 119, 122