"In Flanders Fields," the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada's -- and the world's -- best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.

This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of McCrae's writings, originally issued by his friends in 1919 in his honour and memory. It includes the best of his poetry and selections of his letters from the front lines together with a thoughtful essay of appreciation by his friend and fellow medical officer, Sir Andrew Macphail.

Author: John McCrae
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Golden Dog Press
Published: 04/21/2014
Series: Voyageur Classics #26
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781459728646

About the Author
Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson and was for a number of year the founding Director of Carleton University Press. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa. Presently he is Series Editor for the reissue of the novels of Hugh MacLennan for McGill-Queen's University Press.