World War I Literature Resources

World War I YouTube channel maintained by Anne Fernals, Associate Professor of English at Fordham University.

Two teenaged African American poets from West Virginia, sisters Ada and Ethel Peters, published "War Poems" about black soldiers and racism in 1919. This website is a class project about the book and their lives. It includes a digitized copy of their book.

"Home Before the Leaves Fall: a Great War Centennial Exhibition" (HBTLF) tells the story of the WWI years using sources and materials held by organizations and individuals in the Mid-Atlantic region and seeks to expose these sources to broader use and inquiry by digitization and active public participation and engagement.

Cambridge University Library holds the world's richest assemblage of Sassoon's manuscripts and archival papers and have digitized the soldier-poet's notebooks and journals.

"Dr Santanu Das considers how the examination of war poetry has changed and looks beyond typical British trench lyric to explore the variety of poetic responses."