Rendezvous with Death
Subtitle: AMERICAN POEMS OF THE GREAT WAR (American Poetry Recovery Series)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 13, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780252027444
Subjects: American history: First World War; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry anthologies: from c 1900 -; 20th Century American Poetry; Special Subjects In Literature; English; Poetry; USA; American - General; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Anthologies (multiple authors); 20th century; American poetry; War poetry, American; World War, 1914-1918
First sentence: The following six poems suggest a fundamental tension in prewar U.S. society between an acquisitive, aggressive nationalism and a moralistic, populist reformism.