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war_poets: 28 March 1918 Isaac Rosenberg includes a few lines of a new poem – Through These Pale Cold Days - in a letter to Edward Marsh saying ‘I’ve seen no poetry for ages now so you must not be too critical – my vocabulary small enough before is impoverished’

BondianCW: Rare shout-out for Oscar Isaac's Cardcounter The Chatter Podcast: Spy Movies and the Oscars with Alyssa Rosenberg

war_poets: 19 March 1918 Isaac Rosenberg and the 1st Kings Own Royal Lancasters march from reserve into the firing line near Arras.

fbherald: WHAT'S GOING ON "AROUND THE BEND" Spotted at the grand opening of the Travis Street Splash Pad, former Rosenberg council members Amanda Barta and Isaac Davila, former Rosenberg Parks & Recreation Director Darren McCarthy, who for years pushed for a community splash pad...

war_poets: 8 March 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Winifreda Seaton ‘If I am lucky and come off undamaged, I mean to put all my innermost experiences into the ‘Unicorn’. I want it to symbolize the war and all the devastating forces let loose by an ambitious and unscrupulous will.’

war_poets: 7 March 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh about seeing the most recent volume of 'Georgian Poetry' 'I saw the book about 3 months ago & not for long. I was going into the trenches then.'

war_poets: 7 March 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘we may go up the line any moment now, so I answer your letter straightaway. […] I like to think of myself as a poet; so what you say, though I know it to be extravagant, gives me immense pleasure.’

wikeleyjb: Or Philip Hobsbaum: "The chief heroes of English Modernism died... in the First World War... Edward Thomas, Wilfred Own and Isaac Rosenberg... Their deaths were probably as great a set-back as those of the young Romantics..." (from 'The Growth of English Modernism', 1965)

lalonsocorona: Isaac Rosenberg is truly the most underrated of the war poets

Kulambq: 'Death could drop from the dark As easily as a song- But song only dropped, Like a blind man's dreams on the sand By dangerous tides ...' ~ Isaac Rosenberg

RudiGeerts: 5/n At the end of August 1941, roadblocks were set up at the entrance to Paris, and all those passing through were subjected to a document check. Isaac's ID papers bore a stamp identifying him as a Jew. He was caught at the roadblock on his return from the village, and detained

RudiGeerts: 6/n in Drancy camp. His family received a postcard from him. A second letter from him arrived on the eve of his deportation to Auschwitz from the Compiègne camp. On July 7, 1942, one month after his arrival at Auschwitz, Isaac was murdered there. Chaya and her two sons fled to

RudiGeerts: "I still have hope that we will be together again soon, just like before." 1/n The last postcard from Isaac Joseph Kornowski to his wife and children. He was murdered in Auschwitz. One of his sons, Paul Kor, painted this in his memory.

ThatArtBlog: Isaac Rosenberg - The Immortals sung by me.

war_poets: 19 February 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘Ever since Nov, when we first started on our long marches, I have felt weak; but it seems to be some inscrutable mysterious quality of weakness that defies all doctors’

war_poets: 17 February 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘Poetry has gone right out of me I get no chance to even think of it. My ‘Unicorn’ is dead, & it will need a powerful Messiah to breathe life into its nostrils. I could more easily draw than write’

war_poets: 14 February 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Winifreda Seaton ‘I can call the evenings – that is from tea to lights out – my own; but there is no chance whatever for seclusion or any hope of writing poetry now.’

Godgift64107811: I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. -Isaac Rosenberg kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. -Isaac Rosenberg kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

Godgift64107811: Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. -Isaac Rosenberg kalim~ SUMBUL GRACING BB16 FINALE

war_poets: 8 February 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes ‘being so long without a proper rest I feel as if I need one to recuperate and be put to rights again. However I suppose we’ll stick it, if we don’t, there are still some good poets left who might write me a decent epitaph.’

war_poets: 30 January 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘Im writing this in the line & have no light or paper. There is a lot I’d like to write–I have Balzacean schemes suggested this time. I just write this to let you know Im still a harrassed mortal.’

war_poets: 26 January 1918 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Eddie Marsh ‘I have been in topsy turveydom since I last saw you and have not been able to write. Even now it is in the extremest difficulties that I’m writing this.’

tronsgender: I love my canonical WASPy gayboys but Isaac Rosenberg is the tragic nihilistic Jewish poet representation the I personally deserve

war_poets: 18 January 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh ‘I have been in the trenches most of 8 months I’ve been here & the continual damp & exposure is whispering to my old friend consumption & he may hear the words they say in time.’

labour_steve: Payed our respects this morning to Anglo Jewish war poet/artist Isaac Rosenberg. He rests in Bailleul Road East CWGC and although a pacifist originally he fought not out of a sense of patriotism but one of poverty. Break of Day in the Trenches and Dead Man’s Dump are superb poems

shemaiahng: Finally Isaac Rosenberg’s poem “Returning, We Hear the Larks”

shemaiahng: Reading on poet Isaac Rosenberg this midday. Always drawn to his poem from the trenches “Returning, We Hear the Larks” This passage from a letter haunts me

DavidCranmerUn1: Troy Garity, born on July 7, 1973. Troy Garity’s portrayal of Isaac Rosenberg in the film Barbershop (2002) proved to be his breakout role. Through his mother, Garity is the grandson of New York socialite Frances Ford Seymour and actor Henry Fonda, and a nephew of actor

RudiGeerts: 1/n "The Angel of Belsen" Luba Tryszynska, a Jewish woman from Belarus, near Brest-Litovsk, who lost her husband Hersch and three-year old child Isaac at Auschwitz, was transferred from Auschwitz in November 1944 to Bergen Belsen, and began caring for

war_poets: 12 January 1917 Annie Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh asking for his help in obtaining leave for Isaac Rosenberg with a view to going before a medical board to be declared unfit for duty.

NormalComposers: What a lineup. Gabriel Fauré, Ricardo Viños, Isaac Albéniz, Alfred Cortot, Moritz Moszkowski judging a pianist at the Paris Conservatory. Does anyone know who the candidate is?

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war_poets: 5 January 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh 'We get very little food you know & sometimes none, so if one has only 6d (& often for unaccountable reasons it is not even that) you can imagine what it is like'.

rlgransden: Books I read this year. Highlights include: the poetry of Isaac Rosenberg, the writings of Olive Schreiner, Gottfried Keller’s Seldwyla Folks, and an early poetry collection by John Dos Passos.

RudiGeerts: "I still have hope that we will be together again soon, just like before." The last postcard from Isaac Joseph Kornowski to his wife and children. He was murdered in Auschwitz. One of his sons, Paul Kor, painted this in his memory.

war_poets: 19 December 1919 The British Red Cross write to Annie Rosenberg about the circumstances of Isaac Rosenberg's death. You can read the letter here

war_poets: 17 December 1926 In a letter to Barnett Rosenberg the Imperial War Graves Commission describes the location of Isaac Rosenberg's body 'It is therefore certain that his body is one of those found, but unfortunately it is not possible to say which.'

war_poets: 10 December 1915 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh ‘I never joined the army from patriotic reasons. Nothing can justify war. I suppose we much all fight to get the trouble over.’

war_poets: 8 December 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Joseph Leftwich ‘We never spoke about Whitman. ‘Drum Taps’ stands unique as war poetry in my mind. I have written a few war poems but when I think of ‘Drum Taps’ mine are absurd.’

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war_poets: 5 December 1915 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley 'I also received Gibson's 'Battle' & in one way I think it is the best thing the war has turned out. Personally, I think the only value in any war is the literature it results in.'

war_poets: 5 December 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Laurence Binyon ‘Mr Gibson's new book 'Battle' was sent to me. Most of the poems are really fine & absolutely express the thing.'

war_poets: 5 December 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘I am enclosing the poem I spoke about. I think it has nine parts of my old fault to one of my new merit; but I fancy you will like the idea.’ The poem in question is ‘Daughters of War.’

lindseyhilsum: Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg The darkness crumbles away. It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic rat, As I pull the parapet’s poppy To stick behind my ear.

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war_poets: 1 December 1915 Isaac Rosenberg writes 'I have managed to persuade my mother that I am for home service only though of course I have signed on for general service. I left without saying anything because I was afraid it would kill my mother or I would be too weak & not go.'

JJ56123: "Poppies whose roots are in man's veins Drop, and are ever dropping; But mine in my ear is safe – Just a little white with the dust" Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) Anglo-Jewish war poet and artist.His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most >

JJ56123: >outstanding poetry written during WW1.Having just finished a night patrol,he was killed on the night of 1April 1918. "I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.Nothing can justify war.I suppose we must all fight to get the trouble over." Self-portrait of Isaac Rosenberg,1915

IcebergsMelting: Happy Birthday Isaac Rosenberg

LucyLondon7: WW1 poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg was born on 25th November 1890

NathanFrancis__: "And in the light vague trouble lifts and breathes, And restlessness still shadows the lost ways." Poems:

PetloverHermine: 25Nov/1890: Isaac Rosenberg is born in Bristol, Glos., England. The poet and visual artist will be killed in action in Fampoux, Pas-de-Calais, France in 1918 at age 27

war_poets: 25 November 1917 Isaac Rosenberg celebrates his twenty-seventh birthday in hospital, where he continues to recover from a dangerous flu. ‘Which is fortunate, as his battalion is being destroyed in Bourlon Wood.’

war_poets: 15 November 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Winifreda Seaton ‘Most of the French country I have seen has been devastated by war, torn up – even the woods look ghastly with their shell-shattered trees'

nonaffart: Doodle of the Day: Self Portrait in Steel Helmet (1916), black chalk, gouache & wash on paper, Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1918). Isaac Rosenberg was a talented poet and artist who was was killed in the First World War (1914 - 1918).

war_poets: 12 November 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘We are now on a long march & have done a good deal towards flattening the roads of France. I wrote a little thing yesterday which still needs working on’: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By The Babylonian Hordes

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Cressbrook_Sed: Isaac Rosenberg’s ‘A Day in the Trenches’ was read by James, Logan, Bertie and Freddie

_MattShaw: The darkness crumbles away, It is the same old Druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic uncanny rat As I pull a poppy from the parapet To stick behind my ear, Droll subterranean,

robjn: A new little EP of songs about war. With some Isaac Rosenberg.

jbstaniforth: Anyone interested in the roots of the poppy should skip John McCrae's problematic "In Flanders Fields" (see soldier/scholar Paul Fussell's argument that poem "a propaganda argument... against negotiated peace). Instead, check out Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches."

ismurray: For Veterans' Day - Dead Man's Dump by Isaac Rosenberg

ballabon: From a friend: "I don't know if you know about Isaac Rosenberg, my favorite of the WW1 poets. He has a style that really makes you feel the horror of that war...and his Jewish identity is clearly important in all his work."

TheSacredFlame: Thursday Morning After Midnight, 10 Nov 2022 * * * POETRY/ POET ISAAC ROSENBERG, 1890–1918 "killed while fighting in World War I" Biography:

ArianShaddadi: I walk and wonder To hear the birds sing, Without you my lady How can there be spring? I see the pink blossoms That slept for a year; But who could have woke them, While you were not near? Isaac Rosenberg

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PhilKlay: “Sometimes I give way and appalled at the devastation this life seems to have made in my nature.” --Isaac Rosenberg, 14 February, 1918

PhilKlay: “I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting…I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary conditions of this life.” --Isaac Rosenberg, Autumn 1916

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Swarthyface: Expert here. Studies have shown that when you leave your house while still dark and ride your bike westward to work as day starts to break it really is as Isaac Rosenberg describes it in "Break of Day in the Trenches" (1916):darkness crumbles away.

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war_poets: 22 October 1917 Isaac Rosenberg to Gordon Bottomley 'I enclose a poem I've just written- it's sad enough I know - but one can hardly write a war poem & be anything else. It happened to one of our chaps poor fellow - & I've tried to write it.'

war_poets: 18 October 1917 Isaac Rosenberg, still in the influenza ward of a field hospital in France, writes to G.M. Trevelyan ‘My sister sent your letter on to me here. I liked your letter and very much your little boy’s verses’

ahistoryinart: 'Portrait of Nellie Pickering.' Born in the Ukraine, Jacob Kramer came to England in 1900, settling in the Jewish colony in Leeds. He studied at Leeds School of Art, then the Slade where he met David Bomberg, Isaac Rosenberg and Mark Gertler.

war_poets: 13 October 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘I wrote a small poem I’ll enclose, I may now be able to think about my unicorn although so many things happening puts all ideas out of ones head.’ The poem in question was an early draft of ‘Girl To A Soldier on Leave’.

war_poets: 10 October 1917 Isaac Rosenberg goes sick with influenza “which for a man of his physique is certainly more dangerous than ordinary trench duty”

thejoshuafund: Did you know that Abraham took his son Isaac to be sacrificed on what is now the Temple Mount in Jerusalem? From Episode 069: What I Learned From Abraham | Inside The Epicenter w/ Joel C. Rosenberg

war_poets: 26 September 1917 Isaac Rosenberg’s leave is over.

war_poets: 21 September 1917 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘I am afraid I can do no writing or reading; I feel so restless here and un-anchored. We have lived in such an elemental way so long, things here don’t look quite right to me somehow’

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war_poets: 20 September 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Gordon Bottomley ‘It has been wet and mucky in the trenches for some time & the cold weather helping, we are teased by the elements as well as by the German fireworks, I don’t think Ive been dry yet these last few days'

war_poets: 16 September 1917 Isaac Rosenberg arrives in London on his first leave since joining the army.

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war_poets: 29 August 1916 Isaac Rosenberg includes a draft of ‘Pozieres’ in a letter to Gordon Bottomley and writes ‘I have read Abercrombie’s comedy. He writes like Hercules rolling down Hampstead Hill. I doubt whether the slang always suits the grandeur and vehemence of his writing.’

war_poets: 17 August 1916 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh ‘[Lawrence Binyon] says my poetry comes out in clotted gushes and spasms.’

zinovievletter: Whitechapel: H. Victor Kerr's Gwynne House, 1938; blue plaque for poet/artist Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I; Shaheed Minar monument in Altab Ali Park, named after a Bangladeshi worker murdered by racists in May 1978; panel on the Siege of Sidney Street in the White Hart.

BenUriOnline: Isaac Rosenberg, Self-Portrait in Steel Helmet, 1916 Read our essay of the week: Isaac Rosenberg the Painter Part 2 by Sarah Macdougall and Rachel Dickson

war_poets: 8 August 1914 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Edward Marsh describing Kaiser Wilhelm as 'a naughty aggressive schoolboy who will have ALL the plum pudding.' He concludes 'Now is the time to go on an exploring expedition to the North Pole; to come back & find settled order again.'



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