Monthly Archives: July 2008

The First World War in the news – June 2008

Posted in WW1 in the News

The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Christian Boltanski picked up on the [...]

‘Remember Belgium’ – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War

Posted in Events

Kluge Fellow, Geert Buelens, presents Remember Belgium – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War, 17 July at 12:00 in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress. This talk will address the use of poetry as propaganda, using First World War poems about Belgium by poets  …
Contact: lckluge@loc.gov
URL: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge//news/news2008.html#buelens