Dulce et Decorum Est: The cultural impact of World War I in the United Kingdom

A century since the Armistice, World War I looms larger than ever in the UK's cultural and historical imaginary. Known first as 'the Great War' and then 'the war to end all wars', it was fought in new ways with new technologies, with unprecedented psychological effects on its participants, and this led writers and artists - many of whom were combatants - to find new forms to describe it. This week, Juliet talks to Charlotte Jones (King's College London) about how the war has been represented from 1914 to the present, especially in poetry, memoir and literature, and why portrayals in film and TV cause so much anxiety for those who insist it be remembered as a heroic sacrifice rather than a senseless waste. SELECTED REFERENCES LAURENCE BINYON, 'For the Fallen' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen Blackadder Goes Forth (TV series, 1989) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/blackadder-michael-gove-historians-first-world-war Blast (journal, 1914-15) - https://spikemagazine.com/wyndham-lewis-blast-an-explosive-journal/ MARY BORDEN, The Forbidden Zone (1929) - http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html Rupert Brooke Mira Calix - Beyond the Deepening Shadows: The Tower Remembers (2018) Alan Clark (diarist/MP) Jeffery Daly JEREMY DELLER, 'We're Here Because We're Here' (2016) T. S. Eliot Richard Evans (historian) Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henri-gaudier-brzeska-1143 Julian Grenfell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Grenfell RADCLYFFE HALL, 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' (1926) - https://bartee11.wordpress.com/texts/radclyffe-halls-miss-ogilvy-finds-herself/ RADCLYFFE HALL, The Well of Loneliness (1928) THOMAS HARDY, 'Men Who March Away' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57195/men-who-march-away F. W. Harvey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey Homer (Greek poet) Horace (Roman poet) T. E. Hulme - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-e-hulme ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World (1932) DAVID JONES, In Parenthesis (1937) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Parenthesis JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt RUDYARD KIPLING, Epitaphs of the War (1919) - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_epitaphs1.htm Wyndham Lewis - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTlewis.htm F. T. MARINETTI, 'War, the World's Only Hygiene' (1911) - https://www.unknown.nu/futurism/war.html The Monocled Mutineer (TV series, 1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092404/ Charles S. Myers - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/shell-shocked.aspx C. R. W. Nevinson - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTnevinson.htm Friedrich Nietzsche Oh! What a Lovely War (dir. Richard Attenborough, 1969) WILFRED OWEN, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' (1918) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est Ezra Pound Herbert Read - https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWread.htm Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/isaac-rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/siegfried-sassoons-statement-of-protest-against-the-war-and-related-letters George Bernard Shaw C. H. Sorley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sorley ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade They Shall Not Grow Old (dir. Peter Jackson, 2018) - https://silentlondon.co.uk/2018/10/16/lff-review-they-shall-not-grow-old-honours-veterans-but-not-the-archive/ 'To Suffragettes' (BLAST, 1914) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Blast/Blast1-1_To-Suffragettes.pdf Vorticist artists: David Bomberg, Jessica Dismorr, William Roberts, Helen Sanders, Dorothy Shakespear, Edward Wadsworth - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/06/vorticism-exhibition-lewis REBECCA WEST, The Return of the Soldier (1918) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Soldier