Killed in 1918, now Rosenberg rises
The article reports that a memorial statue to the war poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg is to be commissioned at last. It is a private commission by the author Jeffrey Archer and his wife, Mary, and the sculpture by Etienne Millner will stand in Torrington Square in Bloomsbury, London, between the two...
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| Published in: | Independent on Sunday 2012-09, p.23-23 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The article reports that a memorial statue to the war poet and artist Isaac Rosenberg is to be commissioned at last. It is a private commission by the author Jeffrey Archer and his wife, Mary, and the sculpture by Etienne Millner will stand in Torrington Square in Bloomsbury, London, between the two colleges where Rosenberg studied, Birkbeck and the Slade School of Fine Art. He was the son of poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, grew up in the East End of London and left school at 14. He was 27 when he was killed on 1 April 1818 near Arras and buried in a mass grave. In 1926 his remains were identified but his only memorial has been a military gravestone in Pas de Calais, France, recording his name and profession: "Artist and Poet". His "Poems from the Trenches" are among the most outstanding poems from the war. Few other nations neglect their great poets as Britain has done those of the 1914-1918 war. (Quotes from original text) |
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| ISSN: | 0958-1723 |