Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Counter-attack
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
"Counter-Attack and Other Poems" by Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. The collection contains: Prelude: The Troops, Counter-attack, The Rear-guard, Wirers, Attack, Dreamers, How To Die, The Effect, Twelve Months After, The Fathers, Base Details, The General, Lamentations, Does It Matter?, Fight To A Finish, Editorial Impressions, Suicide In The Trenches, Glory Of Women, Their Frailty, The Hawthorn Tree, The Investiture, Trench Duty, Break Of Day, To Any Dead Officer, Sick Leave, Banishment Song-books Of The War, Thrushes, Autumn, Invocation, Repression Of War Experience, The Triumph, Survivors, Joy-bells, Remorse, Dead Musicians, The Dream, In Barracks, and Together.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
"Counter-Attack and Other Poems" by Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. The collection contains: Prelude: The Troops, Counter-attack, The Rear-guard, Wirers, Attack, Dreamers, How To Die, The Effect, Twelve Months After, The Fathers, Base Details, The General, Lamentations, Does It Matter?, Fight To A Finish, Editorial Impressions, Suicide In The Trenches, Glory Of Women, Their Frailty, The Hawthorn Tree, The Investiture, Trench Duty, Break Of Day, To Any Dead Officer, Sick Leave, Banishment Song-books Of The War, Thrushes, Autumn, Invocation, Repression Of War Experience, The Triumph, Survivors, Joy-bells, Remorse, Dead Musicians, The Dream, In Barracks, and Together.
Counter-attack and Other Poems
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486164683
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.
Attack of the Difficult Poems
Author: Charles Bernstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday life and its adversaries. Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art. Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself. Bernstein never loses his ingenious ability to argue or his consummate attention to detail. Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner. From blues artists to Tin Pan Alley song lyricists to Second Wave modernist poets, The Attack of the Difficult Poems sounds both a battle cry and a lament for the task of the language maker and the fate of invention.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226044777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Charles Bernstein is our postmodern jester of American poesy, equal part surveyor of democratic vistas and scholar of avant-garde sensibilities. In a career spanning thirty-five years and forty books, he has challenged and provoked us with writing that is decidedly unafraid of the tensions between ordinary and poetic language, and between everyday life and its adversaries. Attack of the Difficult Poems, his latest collection of essays, gathers some of his most memorably irreverent work while addressing seriously and comprehensively the state of contemporary humanities, the teaching of unconventional forms, fresh approaches to translation, the history of language media, and the connections between poetry and visual art. Applying an array of essayistic styles, Attack of the Difficult Poems ardently engages with the promise of its title. Bernstein introduces his key theme of the difficulty of poems and defends, often in comedic ways, not just difficult poetry but poetry itself. Bernstein never loses his ingenious ability to argue or his consummate attention to detail. Along the way, he offers a wide-ranging critique of literature’s place in the academy, taking on the vexed role of innovation and approaching it from the perspective of both teacher and practitioner. From blues artists to Tin Pan Alley song lyricists to Second Wave modernist poets, The Attack of the Difficult Poems sounds both a battle cry and a lament for the task of the language maker and the fate of invention.
Collected Poems, 1908-1956
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724726254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Counter-Attack and Other Poems Siegfried Sassoon posted, Lewis guns well placed, And clink of shovels deepening the shallow trench. The place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs High-booted, sprawled and grovelled along the saps; And trunks, face downward, in the sucking mud, Wallowed like trodden sand-bags loosely filled; And naked sodden buttocks, mats of hair, Bulged, clotted heads slept in the plastering slime. And then the rain began, --the jolly old rain! A yawning soldier knelt against the bank, Staring across the morning blear with fog; He wondered when the Allemands would get busy; And then, of course, they started with five-nines Traversing, sure as fate, and never a dud. Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear, Sick for escape, --loathing the strangled horror And butchered, fr We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724726254
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Counter-Attack and Other Poems Siegfried Sassoon posted, Lewis guns well placed, And clink of shovels deepening the shallow trench. The place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs High-booted, sprawled and grovelled along the saps; And trunks, face downward, in the sucking mud, Wallowed like trodden sand-bags loosely filled; And naked sodden buttocks, mats of hair, Bulged, clotted heads slept in the plastering slime. And then the rain began, --the jolly old rain! A yawning soldier knelt against the bank, Staring across the morning blear with fog; He wondered when the Allemands would get busy; And then, of course, they started with five-nines Traversing, sure as fate, and never a dud. Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear, Sick for escape, --loathing the strangled horror And butchered, fr We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Collected Poems, 1908-1956
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571132621
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 and subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in Sequences.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571132621
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his own choice of the poems he wished to preserve. It was first published in 1947 and subsequently enlarged to include the late poems in Sequences.
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
Author: Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781318793488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781318793488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Patrick Campbell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786432446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786432446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.