Into Battle (poem)
Appearance
"Into Battle" is a 1915 war poem by a British First World War subaltern, Julian Grenfell.[1] The poem was published posthumously in The Times after Grenfell fell in 1915. At the time it was as popular as Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier". The poem is pro-war in nature.
References
[edit]- ^ Kendall, Tim (6 February 2010). "Julian Grenfell: 'Into Battle'".
Further reading
[edit]- Hardwick, Lorna; Stray, Christopher (12 April 2011). A Companion to Classical Receptions. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 458–460. ISBN 978-1-4443-9377-4.
- Vandiver, Elizabeth (18 February 2010). Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War. OUP Oxford. pp. 184–197. ISBN 978-0-19-954274-1.