"Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen readings of In Flanders Fields, one of the more famous poems written during the First World War. John McCrae was a poet and physician from Guelph, Ontario. His close friend, Alexis Helmer, was killed during the battle on May 2. McCrae performed the burial service himself, at which time he noted how poppies quickly grew around the graves of those who died at Ypres. The next day, he composed the poem while sitting in the back of an ambulance. Summary by Rachel, adapted from Wikipedia"
"LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Unconquered Dead by John McCrae. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 2nd to 16th, 2008."
"John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces. The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm. The volume contains, as well, a striking essay in character by his friend, Sir Andrew MacPhail. - Summary by from the Preface"
"1. Diary Entries
4. In Flanders Fields
5. Preface: Poems by Wilfred Owen
6. Strange Meeting
7. Greater Love
8. Apologia pro Poemate Meo The Show
9. Mental Cases
10. Parable of the Old Men and the Young
11. Arms and the Boy
12. Anthem for Doomed Youth
13. The Send-off
14. Insensibility
15. Dulce et Decorum est
16. The Sentry
17. The Dead-Beat
18. Exposure
19. Spring Offensive
20. The Chances
21. S.I.W.
22. Futility
23. Smile, Smile, Smile
24. Conscious
25. A Terre
26. Qild with all Regrets
27. Disabled
28. The End"
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