Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, poets of the Great War (World War I)

From, of course, Toronto: Kipling's "Recessional," written for the Diamond Jubilee, and before the Boer War.

Toronto's selection of poems from Thomas Hardy.

The Boer War: Magersfontein, and soldiers in the field at Rosmead (Daskoppies).

From the Victorian Web, a reliable text (you'd be surprised how many bad ones are out there) of Hardy's "Drummer Hodge."

From Toronto, Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain." The subject of that poem, in harbor. The other subject of the "consummation" in Hardy's poem.

Many, many more images and photographs relevant to the life and works of Thomas Hardy.

The current American poet Philip Levine praises "During Wind and Rain"; scroll down a bit for an accurate version of the poem.

The Great War starts.

The Toronto selection from Edward Thomas. An articulate if limited resource center for Thomas and the other Dymock Poets.

From Toronto, Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est."

A First World War internet archive, and a related archive devoted to poetry. Another multimedia First World War archive. From that archive, a primer on poison gas.

Soldiers putting on gas masks.Soldiers digging a trench.

The considerable English critic, scholar and poet Tim Kendall has a war poetry blog, with its own useful links