Some Desperate Glory (35 page)

Hardy, Thomas: xi; ‘Drummer Hodge'; ‘Men Who March Away'

Hare Hall (training camp), Essex

Harrow School

Hart, Basil Liddell

Harvey, F. W. (‘Will')

Heinemann, William (publisher)

Henley, W. E.

Henty, G. A.

Heseltine, Philip

High Beech Camp, Essex

High Wood

Hindenburg, General Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und

Hindenburg Line

Hodgson, Ralph

homosexuality: campaign against

Hope, Anthony:
The Prisoner of Zenda

Housman, A. E.

Howells, Herbert

Hudson, W. H.

Hughes, Ted

Hulme, T. E.

Hunt, Leigh

Huxley, Aldous

Hydra
(magazine)

 

Illustrated London News

India: military life in

Inge, William Ralph, Dean of St Paul's

Ireland: Home Rule question; excluded from conscription; Sassoon in

Isherwood, Christopher

 

Jack, Captain James

James, Henry

Japan: treaty with Britain (1902)

Jefferies, Richard;
The Life in the Fields
;
Wild Life in a Southern County

Joffre, General Joseph Jacques Césaire

John, Augustus

Johnson, Private

Jones, David: on effect of Somme battle;
In Parenthesis

Jones, Captain ‘Shots'

Joyce, James;
Ulysses

Jünger, Ernst

Jutland, battle of (1916)

 

Keats, John

Keynes, John Maynard;
The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Kipling, Rudyard: glorifies common soldier; praises Roberts; poems printed in
The Times
; praises Lady Desborough's memorial book on sons

 

La Bassée canal

La Touret

Lamont, Mrs (of New York)

Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of

Larkin, Philip; ‘MCMXIV'; (ed.)
Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, T. E.:
Revolt in the Desert

Leavis, F. R.

Leftwich, Joseph

Léger family

Litherland, near Liverpool

Littlewood, Joan

Lloyd George, David: Nichols pelts in Oxford; attacks Churchill over Antwerp; succeeds Asquith as Prime Minister; memoirs

London Mercury
(journal)

Loos, battle of (1915)

Lords, House of: constitutional crisis (1911)

Lowell, Robert

Ludendorff, General Erich von

Lusitania
, RMS

 

Macaulay, Rose:
Non-Combatants and Others

McCrae, John: ‘In Flanders Fields'

MacNeice, Louis

Mallory, George

Mametz Wood

Manchester Guardian

Mansfield, Katherine

Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of

Marlborough school

Marne: battle of the (1914); French counter-attack (1918)

Marsh, Sir Edward: Gertler introduces Rosenberg to; Georgian anthologies; falls for Rupert Brooke; and Edward Thomas; praises and mentors Sassoon; helps Gurney; helps Rosenberg; helps Brooke's army career; sends Inge's remarks to Brooke; obituary of Brooke; letter from Graves and Sassoon; Sassoon confesses being changed by trenches; sends Rosenberg poems to Abercrombie; and Sassoon's statement opposing war; Nichols meets; Owen meets; edits Brooke's
Collected Poems
; caricatured by Wells

Masefield, John; ‘August 1914'

Masterman, C. F. G.

Menin Road

Messines

Milligan, Spike

modernism

Monro, Harold

Monroe, Harriet

Morrell, Lady Ottoline

Morrell, Philip

Morris, William

Murry, John Middleton

Music and Letters
(magazine)

 

Nash, Paul

Nation
(magazine)

Nesbitt, Cathleen

Neuve Chapelle

Nevinson, Christopher

New Numbers
(magazine)

Newbolt, Sir Henry; ‘The Vigil'

Nichols, Robert: background; enlists; commissioned; held in England; elegy to Brooke; in France; health and mental problems; Gurney admires; success and reputation; Graves's regard for; not pacifist; Sassoon hopes for elegy by; claims Sassoon deliberately shot; lecture tour of USA; admires Brooke; reviews Owen's
Poems
; in Yeats's
Oxford Book of Modern Verse
; post-war activities; writes introduction to anthology of First War poetry; death;
Ardours and Endurances
(collection); ‘Battery Moving Up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn'; ‘Dawn on the Somme'; ‘The Day's March'; ‘Five Sonnets upon Imminent Departure';
Invocation
(collection); ‘The Secret'; ‘Thanksgiving'

Nicholson, Nancy: marriage to Graves

Nivelle, General Robert

Novello, Ivor

 

Oh, What a Lovely War
(stage musical and film)

Orpen, William

Osborne, E. B.: (ed.)
The Muse at Arms

Ottoman empire

Owen, Colin (Wilfred's brother)

Owen, Harold (Wilfred's brother)

Owen, Susan (Wilfred's mother)

Owen, Thomas (Wilfred's father)

Owen, Wilfred: influenced by evangelical Christianity; education; reputation; background; in Bordeaux at outbreak and early years of war; considers enlisting; in London; joins Artists' Rifles; at training camp; serves in England; posted to Ripon and Scarborough; in France; bitter poetry; on breaching class distinction; commissioned in Manchester Regiment; accidental injury; concussed in fall; in front line; on going over top; at Craiglockhart; war aim; not pacifist; Graves advises; leaves Craiglockhart; attends Graves's wedding; makes plans for post-war world; waits to leave for France; pride in fighting qualities; rejoins battalion in France; wins Military Cross; killed in action; on war's reality; Sassoon on; Graves on; ‘A Terre'; ‘Antaeus'; ‘Anthem of Doomed Youth'; ‘Apologia Pro Poemate Meo'; ‘Arms and the Boy'; ‘The Chances'; ‘The Dead Beat'; ‘Disabled'; ‘Dulce et Decorum Est'; ‘Exposure'; ‘Futility'; ‘Hospital Barge'; ‘I Saw his Round Mouth's Crimson'; ‘Insensibility'; ‘Miners'; ‘Preface'; ‘The Sentry'; ‘Song of Songs'; ‘Spring Offensive'; ‘Strange Meeting';
Works
(ed. Blunden)

Oxenham, John (
pseud. of
William Dunkerley): sales;
All's Well
; ‘For the Men at the Front'

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
: 1953 edition omits Owen

 

Paris: German threat to (1914)

Parsons, Ian: (ed.)
Men Who March Away

Passchendaele

Passchendaele, battle of
see
Ypres, 3rd battle of

Pater, Walter

Perceval, Spencer

Philpot, Glyn

Pinney, Major General Sir Reginald

Plowman, Max:
A Subaltern on the Somme

Plumer, General Herbert Charles Onslow

Poetry Bookshop, London

Poetry
(US magazine)

Pollard, Alfred

Poperinge

post-impressionism

Pound, Ezra

public schools

Punch
(magazine)

 

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ranke, Leopold von

Rawlinson, General Henry

Read, Herbert; ‘The End of a War'

Riding, Laura

Ripon, Yorkshire

Rivers, Dr William H. R.

Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl

Roberts, Michael: (ed.)
The Faber Book of Modern Verse

Romania

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of

Rosenberg, Barnett

Rosenberg, Isaac: background; in South Africa; meets revolutionaries; painting; education; serves as private soldier; returns to England; criticizes Brooke's poetry; enlists; arrives in France; on danger of introducing conscription; dislike of army life; training in England; transferred to King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment); drawing; bitter poetry; experience of action; taken out of line; further transfers in France; writes to Marsh; takes leave in London; influenza; returns to trenches; fails to transfer to Jewish battalion; killed; post-war reputation; ‘Adam and Lilith' (draft); ‘The Amulet' (draft); ‘August 1914'; ‘Break of Day in the Trenches';
Collected Poems
; ‘Dead Men's Dump'; ‘Girl to Soldier on Leave'; ‘Louse Hunting'; ‘Marching – As Seen from the Left File'; ‘Moses';
Moses
(collection);
Night and Day
(collection); ‘On Receiving News of the War: Cape Town'; ‘Pozières'; ‘Returning, We Hear the Larks';
Sacred Love
(painting); ‘Soldier: Twentieth Century'; ‘Spring 1916'; ‘Through These Pale Cold Days'; ‘The Troop Ship'; ‘The Unicorn'; ‘A Worm Fed on the Heart of Corinth';
Youth
(collection)

Rosenberg, Minnie (Isaac's sister)

Ross, Alan

Ross, Robert (Robbie)

Royal Literary Fund: makes grant to Edward Thomas

Royal Naval Division

Royal Navy: and German threat; British reliance on

Rugby school

Russell, Bertrand

Russia: and impending war; supports Serbia; Germans dominate; Bolshevik revolution (October 1917); negotiates peace with Germany

 

Saint Quentin

Salisbury, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of

Sargent, John Singer

Sassoon, Hamo: killed

Sassoon, Siegfried: attends Russian ballet; on ‘cheery old card'; and artistic modernism; and Isaac Rosenberg; education; on Owen's accent; fox-hunting; romantic view of countryside; lifestyle; enlists; on Blunden; volunteers for service abroad; breaks arm; delay in reaching front; commissioned in Royal Welsh (or Welch) Fusiliers; love for David Thomas; satirical poems; confusion over war; influenced by Graves; poems published; writes to mother; solitary forays into no man's land; wins Military Cross; at Festubert; and battle of the Somme; charges enemy; on Graves's fate; invalided home to England; concern for men's welfare; contracts German measles; returns to France; scepticism over war; shot in head; Gurney praises; detained; statement criticizing war; admired by Blunden and Owen; at Craiglockhart; Blunden reads; criticizes Graves; verse-letter from Graves; not pacifist; sent to Palestine; Owen sends drafts of poems to; returns to western front; at war's end; admires Brooke; poetic style after war; post-war reputation and career; writes foreword to Rosenberg collection; contributes introduction to Owen's
Poems
; revisits Flanders (1927); autobiographical writings; anger at Graves's
Goodbye to All That
; infatuation with Tennant; marriage and son; converts to Roman Catholicism; Graves on homosexuality; decline and death; drawn to pacifism before Second World War; ‘Absolution'; ‘Banishment'; ‘Blighters'; ‘Counter-Attack';
Counter-Attack
(collection);
The Daffodil Murderer
(poem); ‘The Death Bed'; ‘Everyone Sang'; ‘A Fallodon Memory'; ‘The General'; ‘In the Pink'; ‘The Kiss'; ‘Letter to Robert Graves';
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
;
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
;
The Old Century
;
The Old Huntsman
; ‘On Passing the New Menin Gate'; ‘The Redeemer';
Sherston's Progress
; ‘Storm and Rhapsody'; ‘Stretcher Case'; ‘They'; ‘To Any Dead Officer'; ‘To Victory'; ‘Today'

Sassoon, (Georgiana) Theresa (
née
Thorneycroft; Siegfried's mother)

Scarborough: Owen in

Schiff, Sidney

Schlieffen Plan

Schoenberg, Arnold

Scott, Marion

Scott Moncrieff, Charles

Second World War

Serbia

Service, Robert

Shaw, Glen Byam

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sidgwick and Jackson (publishers)

Silkin, Jon: (ed.)
Penguin Book of First War Poetry

Sitwell, Edith; edits Owen's
Poems

Sitwell, Osbert

Sitwell, Sacheverell

Skyros

Soldier Poets
(anthology)

Somme, battle of the (1916)

Sorley, Charles: wishes to work with poor; education; background; affection for Germany; poetic taste; sense of England; and outbreak of war; commissioned and trained; on lengthening war; on Brooke's poetry; in France; killed by sniper; Graves admires; Sassoon reads; part-translates
Faust
; Nichols reads work in USA; post-war reputation; ‘All the Hills and Vales Along';
Marlborough and Other Poems
; ‘Saints Have Adored the Lofty Soul of You'; ‘Such, Such is Death'; ‘To Germany'; ‘When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead'

Sorley, William Ritchie (Charles's father)

South Africa

Spears, Sir Edward

Spender, Stephen

Squire, Sir John C.

Steep, Hampshire

Stewart, Patrick Shaw

Strachey, James

Strachey, Lytton

Strauss, Richard

Sudermann, Hermann:
Undying Past

Swinburne, Algernon Charles

 

Tagore, Rabindranath

Tailhade, Laurent

Tennant, Stephen

Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron

Tennyson, Julian

Terraine, John

Thomas, David

Thomas, Edward: catches venereal disease; love of country; poetic taste; and Brooke; at Dymock; background; mental disturbance; meets Frost; patriotism; considers enlisting; writes poetry; enlists in Artists' Rifles; reviews Brooke's
1914 and Other Poems
; life of Duke of Marlborough; at training camp; commissioned; moodiness; last leave in England and arrival in France; poetry noticed and published; diary; killed; book on Keats; post-war reputation; meets Gurney; ‘As the Team's Head-Brass'; ‘Cock-Crow';
Collected Poems
; ‘The Combe'; ‘For These'; ‘Haymaking'; ‘Home' (first of that title); ‘Home' (second);
The Icknield Way
; ‘In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)'; ‘Lights Out'; ‘Lob'; ‘The Manor Farm'; ‘An Old Song II'; ‘The Owl'; ‘A Private'; ‘Rain'; ‘The Sun Used to Shine'; ‘There's Nothing Like the Sun';
This England: An Anthology from her Writers
; ‘This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong'; ‘The Trumpet'; The Unknown Bird'; ‘Up in the Wind'