| Description |
192 pages : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190) and index. |
| Contents |
Rupert Chawner Brooke -- Julian Henry Francis Grenfell -- Charles Hamilton Sorley -- Francis Edward Ledwidge -- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon -- Robert von Ranke Graves -- Wilfred Edward Salter Owen -- Edmund Charles Blunden -- Philip Edward Thomas -- Ivor Bertie Gurney -- Isaac Rosenberg -- David Jones. |
| Summary |
A survey of the lives and work of twelve celebrated British war poets, including Rupert Brooke, dead at twenty-eight; the serious-minded, poignantly truthful Wilfred Owen, who was shot down, at twenty-five; and the defiant Siegfried Sassoon whose gallantry in the Somme Offensive earned him the Military Cross and nickname Mad Jack. Profiled in this volume, too, and illustrated throughout with photographs of the action they saw and manuscripts of the poems they wrote are Edmund Blunden, whose work is haunted by the war until his death in 1974; Isaac Rosenberg, the painter who captured the absurdity and horror of war in words; along with Julian Grenfell, Edward Thomas, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Frances Ledwidge, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, and Robert Graves. With access to the archives of the Imperial War Museum and its wide collection of rare color and black-and-white photographs, this volume combines art, poetry, biography, and the tragic, noble, bleak, and confounding experience that was the Great War. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry.
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Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0786710985 paperback |
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9780786710980 paperback |
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