WWI Unit: Reading List

Listed is the complete list of readings students are expected to complete prior to the listed class.


Lesson 1

Roberts, Minds at War, Introduction (9-17)

Norgate, “Wilfred Owen and the Soldiers Poet” (http://www.jstor.org/stable/517098)

Lesson 2

1914, Wilfred Owen

Wake Up, England, Robert Bridges

Roberts, Minds at War, pages 19 to 92: “Spirit of War is Native to the British,” “What England Wants is a War,” and “Early Enthusiasm for the War”

Lesson 3

Pluck, Eva Dobell

The Mother, May Herschel-Clarke

Roberts, Minds at War pages 186-250: “Home Front”

Lesson 4

Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen

Roberts, Minds at War pages 110-185: “Trench Warfare” and “Waiting and Suffering”

Lesson 5

Disabled, Wilfred Owen

Killed Asleep, Wilfred Owen

Roberts, Minds at War pages 251-284: “The Wounded, the Dying, and the Dead”

Lesson 6

Insensibility, Wilfred Owen
Banishment, Siegfried Sassoon

Roberts, Minds at War pages 285-323: “Refusing to Fight: Psychological Stress – Breakdowns and Protests” (Pay particular attention to Wilfred Owen’s Psychological Journey on p. 317)

Lesson 7

Futility, Wilfred Owen

The Soldier, Rupert Brooke

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead, Charles Sorley

Roberts, Minds at War pages 262-284: “The Wounded, the Dying, and the Dead” cont.

Lesson 8

Anthem for a Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen

The Wind on the Downs, Marian Allen

Lesson 9

The End, Wilfred Owen

Roberts, Minds at War pages 324-361: “The End”

Lesson 10

Strange Meeting, Wilfred Owen

The Lament of the Demobilised, Vera Brittain
To A Conscript of 1940, Herbert Read

Roberts, Minds at War pages 362-376: “An Alien Peace-Time World”

Optional: Roberts, Minds at War pages 377-388: “Brief Lives”