Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
First World War Poetry
Author: Jon Silkin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141180090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Bomber County
Author: Daniel Swift
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429995920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429995920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First World War, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air war and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the author's search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of World War II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and literature of a vanished moment.
The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192825841
Category : War poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192825841
Category : War poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
World War One British Poets
Author: Candace Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611323X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
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
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048611323X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
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
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
Author: Marina MacKay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521887550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.
The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry
Author: Tim Kendall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191569372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe. The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191569372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe. The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.
Poets of World War II
Author: Harvey Shapiro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Acclaimed poet and World War II veteran Shapiro's pathbreaking gathering of work by more than 60 poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Acclaimed poet and World War II veteran Shapiro's pathbreaking gathering of work by more than 60 poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.
World War I Poetry
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1788880196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1788880196
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
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.
Second World War Poems
Author: Hugh Haughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571382606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan - and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets - Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova - exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571382606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan - and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets - Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova - exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
Poets of the Second World War
Author: Rory Waterman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0746312806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An overview of the English-language poetry of the Second World War, focusing on five of the most remarkable poets of that conflict: Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Karl Shapiro, Sidney Keyes and Charles Causley.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0746312806
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
An overview of the English-language poetry of the Second World War, focusing on five of the most remarkable poets of that conflict: Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Karl Shapiro, Sidney Keyes and Charles Causley.