Rosenberg, Isaac. Youth [collection of poems]

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

I. Narodiczky

London

1915

FIRST EDITION. Twenty-two poems

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) is considered to be one of the greatest of all British war poets. His contemporary, Siegfried Sassoon, described his poetry as a "fruitful fusion between English and Hebrew culture." While others wrote about war as patriotic sacrifice, Rosenberg was critical of the war from its onset. However, he enlisted in the army and was assigned to the the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. He was sent to the Somme on the Western Front in France and was killed at dawn on April 1st, 1918. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War. Rosenberg is among 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. Youth is Rosenberg’s second work, privately printed for the author by I. Narodiczky in one hundred copies. See J. Cohen, Journey to the Trenches (1975) p. 117