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Author | : Jim Haughey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Revising his 1996 doctoral dissertation for the University of South Carolina, Haughey seeks out the response of Irish poets to the Great War, which he finds to have been cast into deep critical shadow by the dazzle of English poetry about that war, and the glare of poetry on the contemporary Irish independence movement. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Fran Brearton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199261383 |
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The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, andmemory of the Great War, in the context of Irish politics and culture in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which issues raised in 1912-20 still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland,particularly through such events as the Home Rule cause, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been recognised. This book shows first, that despite complications in Irish domestic politicswhich led to the repression of memory of the Great War, Irish poets have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18. This engagement is particularly true of those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years. The second main concern is the extent towhich recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has itself become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon.
Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 771 |
Release | : 2007-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191569372 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe. The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.
Author | : Gaby Morgan |
Publisher | : Macmillan Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : War poetry |
ISBN | : 9781447248644 |
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Collection of poems written by people who experienced the war first hand - from soldiers to nurses, families and sweethearts. Themes range from early excitement, patriotism, bravery, friendship and loyalty to heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the damaging effects of the war were revealed. Poets include Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, and many more.
Author | : Tim Kendall |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1048 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0191642053 |
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The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
Author | : Fran Brearton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198186724 |
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The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, and memory of the Great War, in the context of Irish culture and politics in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which some of the events of 1912-1920--the Home Rule crisis, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising--still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been acknowledged. This book is concerned with the extent to which recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon. It shows that, despite complications in Irish domestic politics which led to the repression of "official memory" of the Great War in Ireland, Irish poets, particularly those writing in the "troubled" Northern Ireland of the last thirty years, have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18.
Author | : Marcus Clapham |
Publisher | : Macmillan Collector's Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781509843206 |
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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke, the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton Sorley, or the bitter denunciations of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the war produced an astonishing outpouring of powerful poetry. The major poets are all represented in this beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library anthology, alongside many others whose voices are less well known, and their verse is accompanied by contemporary motifs. Edited by Marcus Clapham.
Author | : Keith Jeffery |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521773232 |
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This book gives a unified picture of Ireland's experience of the First World War.
Author | : Terry Phillips |
Publisher | : Reimagining Ireland |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9783034319690 |
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This book analyses poetry and prose written by combatant and non-combatant Irish writers during the First World War, and goes on to look at how the war was remembered in the two decades that followed. It concludes with a discussion of recent Irish literature about the conflict, focusing on the role of memory and the narrative of nationhood.
Author | : John Bremer |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739171534 |
Download C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The life and work of C.S. Lewis after his conversion in 1931 is well known and his reputation shows no signs of diminishing. His earlier years have not been so well studied, particularly between the ages of 16 and 22 when he studied privately and at Oxford, served in the British army, was wounded in France, entered into his affair with Janie Moore, and wrote and published his first book of poems. To correct and augment the limited accounts of this period, Lewis’s life is presented with the general and specific background which makes it more meaningful, particularly as it throws light on his character. The romantic myth of him as a "soldier-poet" is dispelled, largely through an extensive review of the poems in "Spirits in Bondage" and the self-centered life that produced them. A valuable comparison—not to the advantage of Lewis—is drawn with two undoubted soldier-poets, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. The purpose is not to disparage or belittle Lewis but to show what had to be overcome in his limited and unpleasant early moral character in order to produce the devoted Christian of later years.