Poetry of the First World War
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Tim Kendall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199581443
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Poetry; English poetry; English War poetry
Other titles: Poetry of the 1st World War
Description: "The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and consequences of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets and offers a fresh assessment of the work on the centenary of the Great War's outbreak. Focusing on the poets themselves, the book is organized by writer, not theme or chronology. It offers generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke, whilst also incorporating less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. It also includes two previously unpublished poems by Ivor Gurney. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928); title: A. E. Housman ( (1859-1936); title: May Sinclair (1863-1939); title: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939); title: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); title: Lauence Binyon (1869-1943); title: Charlotte Mew (1869-1928); title: Robert Service (1874-1958); title: Edward Thomas (1878-1917); title: Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962); title: Mary Borden (1886-1968); title: Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967); title: Rupert Brooke (1887-1915); title: Julian Grenfell (1888-1915); title: T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888-1918); title: Patrick Shaw Stewart (1888-1917); title: Ivor Gurney (1890-1937); title: Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918); title: Arthur Graeme West (1891-1917); title: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918); title: Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980); title: May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973); title: Charles Sorley (1895-1915); title: Robert Graves (1895-1985); title: David Jones (1895-1974); title: Edmund Blunden (1896-1974); title: Edgell Rickword (1898-1982); title: Music-hall and trench songs.