Symposium proceedings. Twelve essays, including 'The First World War: Poetry, Scholarship, Myth' by Bernard Bergonzi, 'Charles Hamilton Sorley' by Leonee Ormond, 'Who Were the War Poets, Anyway?' by Dominic Hibberd, 'British Fiction and the First World War: the Post-War Novel of Experience' by Hugh Cecil, three on the Somme, others by Samuel Hynes, Jon Silkin and John Wykeham.
