First World War

The dead poet riding on the Tube

By Dana Gloger, September 19, 2008

An anti-war poem war by the late Isaac Rosenberg is to be displayed on the Underground.


When poet Isaac Rosenberg wrote On Receiving News of the War, he certainly would not have expected, that 90 years later, three-and-a-half million Tube passengers a day would be reading his work. But from Monday, the poem will be one of six displayed in 3,000 carriages across London's Underground network, as part of this year's autumn season of the Poems on the Underground scheme, which displays poetry on Tube trains for more than six months every year.

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