The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (1857-1934) set three of the poems (The Fourth Of August, To Women, For The Fallen) in his cantata The Spirit of England (1915-1917). Since its composing and musical setting, For The Fallen has held an honored place in every November 11th Remembrance Day for Britain and the Commonwealth (Memorial Day for Americans). Moved by the opening of the Great War and the already high number of casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, in 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote his For the Fallen, with its Ode of Remembrance, as he was visiting the cliffs on the north Cornwall coast,… The third and fourth verses of the poem (although often just the fourth) have so been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of nation.
- Summary by Wikipedia and david wales
Genre(s): Single author, War & Military
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | The Fourth Of August | David Wales |
00:01:59 |
| Play 02 | Strange Fruit | David Wales |
00:01:55 |
| Play 03 | The New Idol | David Wales |
00:01:13 |
| Play 04 | The Harvest | David Wales |
00:01:14 |
| Play 05 | To The Belgians | David Wales |
00:01:56 |
| Play 06 | Louvain | David Wales |
00:02:06 |
| Play 07 | To Goethe | David Wales |
00:01:37 |
| Play 08 | At Rheims | David Wales |
00:02:18 |
| Play 09 | To The Enemy Complaining | David Wales |
00:01:14 |
| Play 10 | To Women | David Wales |
00:01:33 |
| Play 11 | For The Fallen | David Wales |
00:02:04 |
| Play 12 | Ode For September | David Wales |
00:06:20 |