Author: Patrick Campbell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786432446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.
Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Patrick Campbell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786432446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786432446
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written during World War I, as the best of his writings. Like many of his artistic contemporaries, Sassoon embraced the "Great War for Civilization" with great fervor, and it was this passion that he brought to his earliest writings about the war. "Absolution," his first war poem, published in 1915, summed up his feelings: "fighting for our freedom, we are free." Fighting on the frontlines, Sassoon soon came to the conviction that his war for civilization was anything but civilized. And thus his writings took on a new tone, courageously denouncing a conflict that was no longer about "defense and liberation" but was for "aggression and conquest." Through primary documents and extensive research, the current work provides critical analyses of Sassoon's war poetry. Detailed examinations of each of the so-called trench poems show how the poet and his poetry were transformed through his wartime experiences and give the rationale for the critical consensus that the Sassoon canon is among the most significant in the literature of modern warfare.
The Fallen
Author: Stephan J Myers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999942045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Extraordinarily haunting thought-provoking and authoritative Myers poems are reflections of conversations he had with those who have lost husbands, wives, lovers, brothers, sisters sons and daughters. Heart-rending, revealing and often surprising they relate to conflicts past and present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999942045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Extraordinarily haunting thought-provoking and authoritative Myers poems are reflections of conversations he had with those who have lost husbands, wives, lovers, brothers, sisters sons and daughters. Heart-rending, revealing and often surprising they relate to conflicts past and present.
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141922885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141922885
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.
A Treasury of War Poetry
Author: George Herbert Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Second World War Poems
Author: Hugh Haughton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571212200
Category : Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Poésie
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Second War World Poems is a powerful anthology of poetry from the 1939-45 conflict. It includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the War - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors of the concentration camps like Primo Levi and Paul Celan. It also includes poetry by civilians in London, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, and by writers dealing with the terrifying legacy of the conflict and its aftermath.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571212200
Category : Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Poésie
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Second War World Poems is a powerful anthology of poetry from the 1939-45 conflict. It includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the War - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors of the concentration camps like Primo Levi and Paul Celan. It also includes poetry by civilians in London, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, and by writers dealing with the terrifying legacy of the conflict and its aftermath.
The Tears of War
Author: May Wedderburn Cannan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708946022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Tears of War is the passionate and true love story of a First World War poet, May Cannan and an artillery officer, Bevil Quiller-Couch. It tells their story through May's poems, extracts from her autobiography, and through Bevil's letters.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780708946022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Tears of War is the passionate and true love story of a First World War poet, May Cannan and an artillery officer, Bevil Quiller-Couch. It tells their story through May's poems, extracts from her autobiography, and through Bevil's letters.
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223671
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223671
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
“The very content of Owen’s poems was, and still is, pertinent to the feelings of young men facing death and the terrors of war.” —The New York Times Book Review Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists’ Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, he had written what are considered the most important British poems of WWI. This definitive edition is based on manuscripts of Owen’s papers in the British Museum and other archives.
Welcome to FOB Haiku
Author: Randy Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996931700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"Sherpatude no. 26: 'Humor is a combat multiplier ...' Has your war become workaday? Does life on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) now seem commonplace? Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism -- and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest -- journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again." --
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996931700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"Sherpatude no. 26: 'Humor is a combat multiplier ...' Has your war become workaday? Does life on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) now seem commonplace? Armed with deadpan snark and poker-faced patriotism -- and rooted in the coffee-black soil and plain-spoken voice of the American Midwest -- journalist-turned-poet Randy Brown reveals behind-the-scenes stories of U.S. soldier-citizenship. From Boot Camp to Bagram, Afghanistan. And back home again." --
Minds at War
Author: David Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.
Self-Help To Treasure Trove A Collection of Poems (Volume-I) For Classes 9 and 10
Author: Dr. Jaideep Randhawa
Publisher: Ravinder Singh and sons
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This book is writen by Dr. Jaideep Randhawa and it includes the following chapters. It also includes the details about the poet, poem, word meanings, central idea, paraphrase, summary, critical appreciation, Question & Answers Based on Workbooks (Morning Star, Evergreen and more). and Extra Questions. The Chapters are : 1. The Heart Of a Tree 2. The Cold Within 3. Bangle Sellers 4. After Blenheim 5. Television 6. Daffodils 7. I Know why the caged bird sings 8. The Patroit 9. Abu Ben Adheim 10. Nine Gold Medals
Publisher: Ravinder Singh and sons
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This book is writen by Dr. Jaideep Randhawa and it includes the following chapters. It also includes the details about the poet, poem, word meanings, central idea, paraphrase, summary, critical appreciation, Question & Answers Based on Workbooks (Morning Star, Evergreen and more). and Extra Questions. The Chapters are : 1. The Heart Of a Tree 2. The Cold Within 3. Bangle Sellers 4. After Blenheim 5. Television 6. Daffodils 7. I Know why the caged bird sings 8. The Patroit 9. Abu Ben Adheim 10. Nine Gold Medals