LibGuides: Social Studies: Art and Literature

Books in the Library

Canvas of War: Painting the Canadian Experience
Call Number: 758 OLV

ISBN: 1550547720
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems of the First World War
Call Number: 808.81 FLA

ISBN: 9781841939940
Canadian War Posters: Posters from the First and Second World Wars
ISBN: 9781849310604
A Prose Anthology of the First World War
Call Number: 940.3 HUL

ISBN: 0750204524
Images of Wartime - British Art and Artists of World War I
Call Number: 758.99 VIN

ISBN: 0715397907
People at War: 1914-1918
Call Number: 940.4 MOY

ISBN: 0715362739
Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918
Call Number: 808.81/GAR
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Call Number: 808.81/OWE
Poetry of the World Wars
Call Number: 808.80/FOS
Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War
Call Number: 808.81/PAR

Canvas of War Exhibition - Canadian War Museum
Canadian paintings from World War I.
Official Canadian Art from WWI - Canadian War Museum
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Canadian WWI Recruitment Posters - Canadian War Museum
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Art of War
From the Horizon Canada Encyclopedia - The print version, with images, is available in the library. (If you access this article at home, you will need to enter login credentials - see your assignment sheet.)
Poets of the Great War
The 16 most well know British poets from the great war, and their best know works.
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive - The Collections
Collections of poems, photographs, audio clips, and film from World War I.

The books listed below were published during or just after WWI and are now of print. These ebook versions are provided by Emory University.

Ablain-St. Nazaire (Vimy Ridge)
Painted in 1918 by William Beatty (1868–1941)
Canadian War Museum