illusions,including Irish writer Oscar Wilde's'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'(1898).The Farmer's Bride'(1915)by English poet Charlotte Mew also deals with unfulfilled hopes and English writer Thomas Hardy wrote ofa sense of gathering gloom in his poem 'The Darkling Thrush'(1901).Irish poetand playwright W B Yeats is concerned with the realities of Irish politics(Easter 1916'),as well as with Irish mythology and mystic symbolism. Yeats survived the 1916Irish Easter Risingand World War I but many poets did not,and there is a great deal of poetry that came out of the war.These include the war sonnets(1914)ofEnglish poet Rupert Brooke(killed in 1915)and the workofEnglish poet Wilfred Owen.The war poetry has cometo sum up the catastrophe,needless waste and destruction ofhumanity in 20th-century warfare.Most ofOwen's poems were published posthumously,and werecollected and edited by English poet Siegfried Sassoon('Counter-Attack',1918),who survived the war.Compared to this the work ofEnglish poets John Masefield and Walter de la Mare seems less modern,but their lyrical quality has led to their continuing popularity. 10: VI.Post-war women's writing After the success of Virginia Woolf,and after the two world wars it appeared easier thanever before for women to be published in aillusions, including Irish writer Oscar Wilde's ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ (1898). ‘The Farmer's Bride’ (1915) by English poet Charlotte Mew also deals with unfulfilled hopes and English writer Thomas Hardywrote of a sense of gathering gloom in his poem ‘The Darkling Thrush’ (1901). Irish poet and playwright W B Yeatsis concerned with the realities of Irish politics (‘Easter 1916’), as well as with Irish mythology and mystic symbolism. Yeats survived the 1916 Irish Easter Rising and World War I but many poets did not, and there is a great deal of poetry that came out of the war. These include the war sonnets (1914) of English poet Rupert Brooke (killed in 1915) and the work of English poet Wilfred Owen. The war poetry has come to sum up the catastrophe, needless waste and destruction of humanity in 20th-century warfare. Most of Owen's poems were published posthumously, and were collected and edited by English poet Siegfried Sassoon (‘Counter-Attack’, 1918), who survived the war. Compared to this the work of English poets John Masefield and Walter de la Mare seems less modern, but their lyrical quality has led to their continuing popularity. VI. Post-war women's writing After the success of Virginia Woolf, and after the two world wars, it appeared easier than ever before for women to be published in a 10’