Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War
Author: first_name: Robert Laurence
last_name: Binyon
Language: English
Year: 1915

This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I.  There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse.  Edward Elgar (1857-1934) set three of the poems (The Fourth Of August, To Women, For The Fallen) in his cantata The Spirit of England (1915-1917).  Since its composing and musical setting, For The Fallen has held an honored place in every November 11th Remembrance Day for Britain and the Commonwealth (Memorial Day for Americans).   Moved by the opening of the Great War and