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Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology

Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology

Kendall, Tim

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0198703201
ISBN13: 9780198703204
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 1 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war.

This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets and offers a fresh assessment of the work on the centenary of the Great War's outbreak. Focusing on the poets themselves, the book is organized by writer, not theme or chronology. It offers generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke, whilst also incorporating less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. It also includes two previously unpublished poems by Ivor Gurney.

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.

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