A History Of World War One Poetry
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Author | : Jane Potter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1030 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009302620 |
Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to represent a global conflict, dominated by modern technology, involving millions of combatants and countless civilians. For literary scholars this has meant discovering and engaging with the work of men and women writing in other languages, on other fronts, and from different national perspectives. Poems are presented in their original languages and in English translations, some for the very first time, while a Coda reflects on the study and significance of First World War poetry in the wake of the Centenary. A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.
Author | : Candace Ward |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 048611323X |
DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Arcturus Publishing |
Total 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.
Author | : Jon Silkin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780141180090 |
A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total 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.
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.
Author | : Tim Dayton |
Publisher | : |
Total 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.
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438115806 |
Provides insight into four each of Wilfred Owen's and Isaac Rosenberg's most influential works along with a short biography of each poet.
Author | : Wilfred Owen |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781853264238 |
This volume contains all of Owen's best known work, only four of which were published in his lifetime. His war poems were based on his acute observations of the soldiers with whom he served on the Western front, and reflect the horror and waste of World War One.
Author | : Matthew George Walter |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-10-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141922885 |
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.