Title: War, women, and poetry, 1914-1945
First published: 1995
Description: War, Women, and Poetry examines the experience of European women, especially British and German women, in World Wars I and II and the literature they wrote in reaction to those wars. Author Joan Montgomery Byles asks what the impact of war was upon women's lives, and she focuses on how women writers of both poetry and prose represented these wars in their writing.

The study is both literary and historical and seeks to interweave the historical circumstances of these wars with women's and men's literary response, particularly the poetic response. In comparing the war poetry of men and women, the reader can see important differences and important similarities. The book then examines how the social-historical situation of war manifests itself in artistic expression: but of necessity, it also looks at the actual historical events themselves.
Subjects: Authorship, Comparative Literature, English War poetry, English and German, English poetry, German and English, History, History and criticism, Literature and the war, Literature, Comparative, Sex differences, War poetry, English, Women, Women and literature, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1939-1945, War poetry, history and criticism, World war, 1914-1918, literature and the war, World war, 1939-1945, literature and the war, World war, 1939-1945, women, World war, 1914-1918, women, Comparative literature, english and german, English poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Authorship, sex differences, Women authors, Male authors
Places: Germany, Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR605.W65 B95 1995