This is a captivating collection of poetry by Erwin Clarkson Garrett. It contains several poems on American soldiers in World War 1917-19, based entirely on facts and incidents from personal experiences and observations. In addition, it consists of pre-war poems and others of general and non-military character.

This is an incredible collection of American poetry divided into three parts. The first part is dedicated to the poem "The Dyak Chief," the second is occupied by American army ballads, and the third is filled with beautiful verses on miscellaneous subjects. These verses are passionate and have genuine melodic quality. Erwin Clarkson Garrett did an excellent job putting his thoughts into literary form throughout the collection. The simplicity with which he wrote won readers' attention during his time. The collection takes you on a beautiful journey into the fascinating world of poetry. It comprises several incredible poems, including On the Water-Wagon, Philippine Rankers, The Little Bronze Cross, Lines to an Elderly Friend, and many more.

American Poetry and the First World War connects American poetry to the political and economic forces behind American participation in World War I. Dayton investigates the ways that poetry was used to imagine the war and studies a wide range of poetry: open and closed form, formal and colloquial, well-known and unknown. In a chapter on Edith Wharton, Dayton demonstrates that many of the features of poetry also found expression in prose about the war. Seeing the war as the opening bid in American ascent to global hegemony, Dayton unlocks some of the ways that literature provided a means by which to accept - and occasionally contest - the price to be paid for power. American Poetry and the First World War draws on a wide range of reading in the primary texts of the period, archival research, historical materialist theory, and work in political and economic history and international relations.