Oxford Book of War Poetry

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

269 kr

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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems in Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology span centuries of human experience of war, from David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they chart a great shift in human awareness - from man's early celebratory 'war-songs' to the twentieth century's darker poetic responses to 'man's inhumanity to man'.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-01-09
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
FörlagOxford University Press
ISBN9780199554539

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Review from previous edition quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy - and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince - they're all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. Times Educational Supplement a marvellous collection of old favourites and many surprises. The Star This collection is of exceptionally high quality. Washington Post full of good things...many old favourites and quite a few genuine surprises. Vernon Scannell, The Guardian This is an anthology that works in a way that the work of no single poet could. The Observer