Poems - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Poems is a collection by Elinor Jenkins, a young British poet whose work is closely tied to the First World War. Her first volume appeared in 1915, and this expanded edition, which adds sixteen later poems, was published in 1921 after her early death.

Many of the poems respond directly to the war. Some look at the fighting from a distance, recalling the opening months of 1914 or the battles in Flanders, while others imagine the experience of soldiers on night duty or mourn comrades who did not return. One poem pays tribute to Rupert Brooke, and another turns a famous Latin line about dying for one's country into a question. Grief runs through the book in epitaphs and elegies, including one for a child buried abroad. Alongside these are quieter lyrics about orchards, harvests, poppy fields, autumn wind and spring nights, poems of love and marriage, and religious pieces, among them a meditation written in Hereford Cathedral.

Jenkins writes in traditional forms with clear, musical language, and her voice offers a home-front perspective that complements the better-known soldier poets. The collection will interest readers of First World War poetry, those exploring women's writing of the period, and anyone drawn to reflective verse about loss, memory and the English landscape.