Scars upon my heart
Subtitle: women's poetry and verse of the First World War
By: edited and introduced by Catherine W. Reilly ; with a preface by Judith Kazantzis
Contributors: Reilly, Catherine W
Publisher: Virago
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry; War poetry, English; English poetry -- Women authors; English poetry -- 20th century
Genres: Poetry
Description: Scars upon my heart is the first anthology of women war poets of the First World War for over sixty years. The work of these eighty or so poets will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that the view of "the women at home", ignorant and idealistic, was quite false. Some of these poems come from out of direct experience of nursing the victims of trench warfare; others record the pain of lovers, brothers, sons lost. Here, as elsewhere, the "poetry is in the pity", and the anthology is a moving record of women's consciousness at a momentous period of history.
Notes: Reprint of 1981 ed

Includes index