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West Midlands writers on war

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Authors and poets

There are pages on this website devoted to the following writers whose works have been quoted in this theme of West Midlands' writers on war:-

• Florence L. Barclay (1862-1920)
• Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
• Robert Buchanan (1841-1901)
• Mrs. (Dinah) Craik (1826-1887)
• Thomas Day (1748-1789)
• William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
• Geoffrey Hill (1932-)
• Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
• Edith Pargeter [Ellis Peters] (1913-1995)
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
• Hesba Stretton (1832-1911)
• Mary Webb (1881-1927)

Books

Other books that have war as a major theme are:

William Harrison Ainsworth

Boscobel

Edith Pargeter

Heaven tree trilogy

W.S. Symonds

Hanley Castle

The following books by West Midlands authors can be used for more information:

Hilaire Belloc

Warfare in England; A brief history of the Roman Conquest, the Norman Conquest, the campaign of Magna Charta, the Baron's Wars, the Wars of the Roses, the Civil Wars and the Scotch Wars

Henry Treece

The crusades

The terrible rain: The war poets 1939-1945

An anthology selected and arranged by Brian Gardner

Online resources

Further information on the following topics can be obtained by following the links to other websites:-

• The Battle of Shrewsbury (1403)
• The Battle of Worcester (1651)
• Wilfred Owen (The Wilfred Owen Association)
• Dymock poets (poets focusing on the First World War)
• Shropshire Routes to Roots (has various historical themes on the World Wars in Shropshire)

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