Poetry of the First World War
Title | Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Kendall |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 1048 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0191642053 |
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
World War I Poetry
Title | World War I Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | Arcturus Publishing |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2017-09-21 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1788880196 |
The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.
International Poetry of the First World War
Title | International Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Constance M. Ruzich |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2020-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350106453 |
Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict. Across over 150 poems, this anthology explores such topics as the following: · Life at the Front · Psychological trauma · Noncombatants and the home front · Rationalising the war · Remembering the dead · Peace and the aftermath of the war With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems written by authors from America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, and South Africa.
Great Poets of World War I
Title | Great Poets of World War I PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Stallworthy |
Publisher | Carroll & Graf Pub |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780786710980 |
A wonderfully illustrated collection of critical analysis of poetry from World War I commemorates the great poetic voices produced by this terrible conflict, including such noted writers as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owe, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, and other notables.
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Santanu Das |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107018234 |
This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration.
American Poetry and the First World War
Title | American Poetry and the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Dayton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2018-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108418783 |
Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.
Poetry of the First World War
Title | Poetry of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Kendall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199581444 |
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall not grow old, as they that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.