Jon Stallworthy
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 2008
9780521899062
Survivors' Songs
From Maldon to the Somme
Specificaties
Gebonden, 240 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9780521899062
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the wider context of writing about warfare from prehistoric Troy to Anglo-Saxon England; from Agincourt to Flanders; from El Alamein to Vietnam; from the wars of yesterday to the wars of tomorrow.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521899062
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:240
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
1. The death of the hero; 2. Survivors' songs; 3. England's epic?; 4. Who was Rupert Brooke?; 5. Christ and the soldier; 6. Owen's afterlife; 7. Owen and his editors; 8. The legacy of the Somme; 9. The iconography of the waste land; 10. War and peace; 11. The fire from heaven; 12. Henry Reed and the great good place; 13. The fury and the mire; Index.