Civilian Poets and Poetry of the Crimean Conflict:The War at Home
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2015

Cast in the shadow of the soldier-poets of the First World War, the Civilian poets of the Crimean War (1854-56) have long been dismissed as ill-informed patriots. Challenging this long-standing assumption, this thesis argues that Crimean War poetry constitutes a distinctive category of war poetry which should be studied in its own right, and that reading a civilian’s war poem requires a careful consideration of the poet’s engagement with the epistemological, ethical and formal implications of de