Boer War : Poetry

Though the war in South Africa generated a prodigious amount of verse, it is surprisingly difficult to get hold of. The best, indeed the only, book-length critical treatment is M. Van Wyk Smith's Drummer Hodge. The Poetry of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, published in Oxford in 1978, has long been out of print. This ongoing anthology is my modest attempt to improve the situation.

Anthologies

British Poets

Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)
Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Robert Buchanan (1841-1901)
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
T.W.H. Crosland (1865-1924)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
W.E. Henley (1849-1903)
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
George Meredith (1828-1909)
Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
William Watson (1858-1935)

Australian Poets

Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant
'Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)

Canadian Poets

Robert Service (1874 -1958)

Jan F.E. Celliers (1865-1940)
Beatrice Hastings (1879-1943)
C. Louis Leopoldt (1880-1947)
'Totius' (1877-1953)

[ Poetry in French... ]

Links to Boer War Songs
Listen to the music and read the lyrics of "Goodbye Dolly Gray" in a vintage 1901 recording
A brief essay on Rudyard Kipling set to music
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/pvm/HardyBWar/poetry.html