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international poetry of conflict
Week
1
The American Civil War (1861–1865)
Poems by Walt Whitman and Herman Melville
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2
the First World War (1914–1918)
Poems by Wilfred Owen and Ted Hughes
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3
the Great Purge – Russia (1936–1938)
Poems by Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam
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4
the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Poems by Miguel Hernandez, Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo
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6
the Vietnam War (1955–1975)
Poems by James Fenton, Adrian Mitchell and Bruce Weigl
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7
The Troubles – Northern Ireland (late 1960s–1998)
Poems by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Ciarán Carson
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8
the Yugoslav Wars (1990s)
Poems by Goran Simic and Marko Vešović
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9
the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict (1947–present)
Poems by Suheir Hammad, Mahmoud Darwish and Dalia Ravikovitch
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10
the Iraq War and post 9/11 poetry (2003–2010)
Poems by Adnan Al-Sayegh and Imtiaz Dharker
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