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Ardours and Endurances

by Robert NICHOLS (1893 - 1944)

Introduction

This is a volume of war poetry by English poet and playwright Robert Nichols. To quote Wikipedia: "On 11 November 1985, Nichols was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'" This particular volume of poetry contains his most well-known poems, and is also perhaps one of the most haunting collections of war poetry in the English language. - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of Ardours and Endurances:
Battle - I - Noon , Battle - II - Night Bombardment , Battle - III - Comrades: An Episode , Battle - IV - Behind the Lines: Night, France , Battle - IX - The Assault , Battle - V - At the Wars , Battle - VI - Out of Trenches: The Barn, Twilight , Battle - VII - Battery moving up to a New Position from Rest Camp: Dawn , Battle - VIII - Eve of Assault: Infantry going down to Trenches , Battle - X - The Last Morning , Battle - XI - Fulfilment , Farewell To Place of Comfort , The Aftermath - I - At the Ebb , The Aftermath - II - Alone , The Aftermath - III - Thanksgiving , The Aftermath - IV - Annihilated , The Aftermath - V - Shut of the Night , The Aftermath - VI - The Full Heart , The Aftermath - VII - Sonnet: Our Dead , The Aftermath - VIII - Deliverance , The Approach - I - In the Grass: Halt by Roadside , The Approach - II - The Day's March , The Approach - III - Nearer , The Dead - I - The Burial in Flanders , The Dead - II - Boy , The Dead - III - Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken , The Dead - IV - By the Wood , The Summons - I - The Past , The Summons - I - To -- , The Summons - II - The Reckoning