The Great War in Verse and Prose

The Great War in Verse and Prose

Author: Various

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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"The Great War in Verse and Prose" is a comprehensive anthology compiled by various authors, offering a diverse collection of literary works that reflect the experiences, emotions, and perspectives of individuals affected by World War I. This anthology captures the multifaceted nature of the conflict through a combination of poetry, prose, letters, and other written forms. Spanning different genres and styles, the selections in "The Great War in Verse and Prose" provide readers with a panoramic view of the war's impact on soldiers, civilians, and societies across the globe. From patriotic fervor to disillusionment, from the horror of the trenches to the resilience of the human spirit, the anthology encompasses a wide range of themes and emotions associated with the war. Through the voices of poets, novelists, journalists, and ordinary individuals, "The Great War in Verse and Prose" offers poignant insights into the social, cultural, and psychological dimensions of World War I. By juxtaposing different literary forms and perspectives, the anthology invites readers to engage with the complexities of war and its enduring legacy on humanity.


First World War Poetry

First World War Poetry

Author: Jon Silkin

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997-02-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780141180090

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A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.


World War I Poetry

World War I Poetry

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1788880196

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The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world literature. Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and W B Yeats are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poems still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.


C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918

C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918

Author: John Bremer

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0739171526

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This book presents a realistic account of the early years of C.S. Lewis as revealed in "Spirits in Bondage" and its surrounding events. It calls for a reappraisal of Lewis himself, not as a "soldier-poet" but as a young, ruthless and ambitious would-be academic, using others--his father, his university, his mistress--to further his own ends.


Stand in the Trench, Achilles

Stand in the Trench, Achilles

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2010-02-18

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0199542740

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A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.


Minds at War

Minds at War

Author: David Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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The First World War cast its shadow over the 20th century. The poets were those most gifted to record the personal, moral and spiritual impact of those traumatic years. This anthology contains 250 poems by 80 poets, including photographs & maps.


The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina

The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina

Author: Elizabeth A. Sudduth

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9781570035906

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Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.


The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

Author: Matthew George Walter

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-10-26

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0141922885

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This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessible and satisfying than others. In addition to the established canon there are poems rarely anthologised and a selection of soldiers' songs to reflect the voices of the soldiers themselves.


Great War Modernists

Great War Modernists

Author: Lee M. Jenkins

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-07-11

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 135028534X

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Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as 'another Bloomsbury set', the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, 'lived in squares' and 'loved in triangles', in Dorothy Parker's famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics: both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as 'life writing'. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde: Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Cournos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modernism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modernist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Cournos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modernist life writing.