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Contemporary War Poems
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Author : John Erskine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
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Contemporary War Poems
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Author : John Erskine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Contemporary War Poems written by John Erskine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with American poetry categories.
Contemporary War Poems
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Author : John Erskine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-12
Contemporary War Poems written by John Erskine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-12 with History categories.
Excerpt from Contemporary War Poems: December, 1914 The poems of this collection have been chosen to illustrate the emotional attitudes of the United States toward the war, as those attitudes find expression in newspaper and magazine verse. At another time the literary merits of these pieces would invite judgment or comment; now, however, the suitability of war poems for the purpose of an anthology is a very minor question, and it is therefore not as a literary museum that these verses are offered, but as social documents, as evidence of the state of our civilization at this moment. Of course the emotional attitudes of a nation may unfortunately change from day to day, and it is quite possible that before these selections are in print they may have ceased to represent the national feeling, but at this moment at least we may read in them certain well-defined and common attitudes which are all the more significant since the individual poems were written in various circumstances, and come together here almost by accident. The first observation the reader will make is that the glamor of war has not touched these poems; here are no stirring battle songs and no heroic ballads. Perhaps the newspaper correspondent and the newspaper photograph have made war too frightfully real for any but a horrified treatment; perhaps warfare has ceased for the moment at least to be an idea of any sort, alluring or otherwise, and has become, or has tended to become, for the public consciousness simply an ugly and stupefying fact. But however we explain it, the absence of glamor from these verses on the war is a new and interesting phenomenon. Even when war has been condemned in itself, poets have usually recognized the moral value of certain of its by-products, or have justified the battles fought in a good cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Contemp War Poems
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Author : John 1879-1951 Erskine
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Contemp War Poems written by John 1879-1951 Erskine and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Siegfried Sassoon
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Author : Patrick Campbell
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2007-08-13
Siegfried Sassoon written by Patrick Campbell and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Oxford Handbook Of British And Irish War Poetry
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Author : Tim Kendall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-02-22
The Oxford Handbook Of British And Irish War Poetry written by Tim Kendall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Handbook ranges widely and in depth across 20th-century war poetry, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the key poets of the period. It is an essential resource for scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates. Contributors include some of the most important international poetry critics of our time.
Tomorrow It Will All Run Backwards
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Author : Michael Brett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-15
Tomorrow It Will All Run Backwards written by Michael Brett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-15 with categories.
Tomorrow It Will All Run Backwards is a collection of war poetry that, in the words of Mario Petrucci, the Imperial War Museum's Poet-In-Residence, is "direct, point-blank. Brett is concerned with parachuting us into seeing what he, with consistently unsentimental eyes, has seen." Rich with allusions to literature and culture, the poems remind the reader that even education and civil society can do nothing to change the horrific nature of war itself. Through this book, Brett focuses the attention of the reader onto the implications of war. The imagery is often striking and the commentary subtle, tending to convey a world of twisted values, a world striking or even beautiful in its cruelty and insensitivity to everyone -civilians or soldiers- who become just part of the technology of war.
The Hundred Years War
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Author : Neil Astley
language : en
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
Release Date : 2014
The Hundred Years War written by Neil Astley and has been published by Bloodaxe Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Poetry categories.
This anthology presents poems from a hundred years of war by poets writing as combatants on opposite sides, as victims, or anguished witnesses. Editor Neil Astley has created this deeply moving testament to humanity caught up in a hundred years of war. There have been two world wars since 1914, lasting for ten years, but wars have continued for a hundred years since then in many parts of the world: wars between nations, tribes, and factions, wars over religion and beliefs, wars fought for land or oil or history, civil wars, political wars, and the Cold War when the West remained on a war-footing while supposedly at peace.
Modern English War Poetry
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Author : Tim Kendall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006-07-20
Modern English War Poetry written by Tim Kendall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern English War Poetry ranges widely across the twentieth century, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the most important poets of the period. It emphasizes the influence of war and war poetry even on those poets usually considered in other contexts, such as Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill.
Heroes
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Author : John Jeffcock
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Heroes written by John Jeffcock and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Poetry categories.
In 2010, with the full support of the MOD, John Jeffcock, poet and a former soldier in the Coldstream Guards, invited contributions for a book of modern war poems. He was overwhelmed by the response: contributions came from serving soldiers, veterans and their families - wives, sisters, daughters (one just 11 years old). The writers have one thing in common: these are people whose lives have been changed by war, and the poems speak to readers with direct, emotional appeal. While over half of the contributions relate to Afghanistan, there are also poems inspired by World War II, The Falklands and Northern Ireland. This is also the first time that poems have been gathered from all ranks and all organizations - from the Parachute Regiment to the Special Air Service, from the Gordon Highlanders to the Royal Marines. As the poetry of Brooke, Owen and Sassoon spoke to those who endured World War I, here are poems that speak of war in our time - the theatres of war might change but the emotional resonance remains the same.