British writers on the battlefronts and the home front of the Second World War.
Catalogue of a Grolier Club exhibition held December 6, 1995 - February 17, 1996, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II. Poets in a War describes manuscripts, first editions, drawings, and portraits of 130 British poets of the 1940s who served at home and abroad, It included works by T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, and Dylan Thomas in London; Keith Douglas, and Sidney Keyes in North Africa; and Alun Lewis in Asia. The curator, Kenneth A. Lohf, a poet himself who saw service in the U.S. Army Air Force, included many items from his own collection, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Designed by Martino Mardersteig, printed at the Stamperia Valdonega.
