Coda: Legacies of World War One Poetry

Summary

The Coda addresses the multifaceted and diverse cultural memory of the war contained in and inspired by the poetry of 1914–1918. It reflects how the study of First World War poetry remains energised in the wake of the Centenary through the expansion of online resources which have made possible the cataloguing of an ever-increasing and diverse poetic corpus. Moreover, such digital, less-constricted access means that the twenty-first-century eyes that gaze back at that corpus are more diverse than ever before. Rather than a lieu de memoire, this History aims to be a springboard for ongoing scholarship.