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==Legacy== [[File:WW1 Poets floorstone, Westminster Abbey.jpg|thumb|Poets of the First World War memorial, Westminster Abbey]] * Self-portraits by Rosenberg hang in the [[National Portrait Gallery (London)|National Portrait Gallery]]<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=sa&sText=Isaac+Rosenberg&LinkID=mp03867&rNo=0&role=sit |title=Portrait NPG 4129 β Isaac Rosenberg |publisher=National Portrait Gallery |access-date=1 April 2009 }} </ref> and [[Tate Britain]].<ref> {{cite web |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=12755 |title=Self-Portrait by Isaac Rosenberg |publisher=Tate Online |access-date=1 April 2009 }} </ref> * A commemorative blue plaque to him hangs outside the Whitechapel Gallery, formerly the Whitechapel Library, which was unveiled by Anglo-Jewish writer [[Emanuel Litvinoff]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emanuel-litvinoff.com/Historical_Resources/Entries/1987/12/4_EL_unveils_plaque_to_Isaac_Rosenberg.html |title=EL unveils plaque to Isaac Rosenberg |publisher=Emanuel-litvinoff.com |access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref> * On 11 November 1985, Rosenberg was among 16 Great War poets who were commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in [[Westminster Abbey]]'s [[Poet's Corner]].<ref> {{cite web |url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html |title=Poets of the Great War |publisher=net.lib.byu.edu |access-date=1 April 2009 }} </ref> The inscription on the stone was taken from [[Wilfred Owen]]'s "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."<ref> {{cite web |url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/Preface.html |title=Preface |publisher=net.lib.byu.edu |access-date=1 April 2009 }} </ref> * Rosenberg appears in the novel ''Grosse Fugue'' by Ian Phillips. * In ''[[The Great War and Modern Memory]]'', [[Paul Fussell]]'s landmark study of the literature of the First World War, Fussell identifies Rosenberg's "Break of Day in the Trenches" as "the greatest poem of the war." * [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast a documentary on his life called "Nobody Told Me To Oil My Boots", written and directed by Neil Cargill with narration by [[Sir Antony Sher]] and [[Simon Schatzberger]] β re-broadcast by [[BBC Radio 4 Extra|Radio 4Extra]].
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