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100 1  Korda, Michael,|d1933-|eauthor. 
245 10 Muse of fire :|bWorld War I as seen through the lives of 
       the soldier poets /|cMichael Korda. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a 
       division of W.W. Norton & Company,|c[2024] 
300    xvi, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and 
       index. 
520    "His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the 
       handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most 
       famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age,
       and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in 
       action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice.
       With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram 
       informing her of his death on November 11, just as church 
       bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic 
       account, which includes anecdotes from his own family 
       history, not only brings to life the soldier poets but 
       paints an unforgettable picture of life and death in the 
       trenches, and the sacrifice of an entire generation. His 
       cast of characters includes the young American poet Alan 
       Seeger, who was killed in action as a private in the 
       French Foreign Legion; Isaac Rosenberg, whose parents had 
       fled czarist anti-Semitic persecution and who was killed 
       in action at the age of twenty-eight before his fame as a 
       poet and a painter was recognized; Robert Graves and 
       Siegfried Sassoon, whose friendship and friendly rivalry 
       endured through long, complicated private lives; and, 
       finally, Owen, whose fame came only posthumously and whose
       poetry remains some of the most savage and heartbreaking 
       to emerge from the cataclysmic war"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Seeger, Alan,|d1888-1916. 
600 10 Rosenberg, Isaac,|d1890-1918. 
600 10 Graves, Robert,|d1895-1985. 
600 10 Sassoon, Siegfried,|d1886-1967. 
600 10 Owen, Wilfred,|d1893-1918. 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xLiterature and the war|vBiography. 
650  0 Poets, English|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 War poetry, English|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 English poetry|y20th century|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Soldiers' writings, English|xHistory and criticism. 
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