Langdon Hammer's Modern Poetry course at Yale (ENGL 310) devotes this lecture to English poets writing during and after the First World War. He opens with Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," reading it as a direct assault on war propaganda, then turns to Thomas Hardy's home-front poems, "Channel Firing," "In the Time of 'the Breaking of Nations,'" and "I Looked up From My Writing," to trace how the war reshaped civilian consciousness. Edward Thomas's "Adlestrop" and Siegfried Sassoon's "Blighters" extend the contrast between rural England and the trenches, before Isaac Rosenberg's "Louse Hunting" grounds the discussion in the physical squalor of soldiers' daily life. The lecture closes with Owen's "Strange Meeting." Hammer moves poem by poem, close-reading language and form to show how each writer negotiated rhetoric, grief, and irony under wartime censorship and propaganda pressure.