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Author | : Jon Silkin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Matthew George Walter |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-10-26 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Ann-Marie Einhaus |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007-10-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141916494 |
Download The Penguin Book of First World War Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the war's literature. The selection covers different periods: the war years themselves, the famous boom years of the late 1920s to the more recent past in which the First World War has received new cultural interest.
Author | : Ivor Gurney |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-03-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141182075 |
Download Three Poets of the First World War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An essential new collection of poetry from the First World War This indispensable anthology brings together the works of three major poets from the First World War. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was a classical music composer and poet who published two volumes of poems, Severn and Somme and War's Embers. Wilfred Owen's (1893- 1918) realistic poetry is remarkable for its details of war and combat. Isaac Rosenberg's (1890-1918) Poems from the Trenches is widely considered one of the finest examples of war poetry from the period. Carefully selected by Jon Stallworthy, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, these poems comprise a landmark publication that reflects the disparate experiences of war through the voices of the soldiers themselves. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Siegfried Sassoon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : War poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gerald Moore |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141912901 |
Download The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include ninety-nine poets from twenty-seven countries, thirty-one of whom appear for the first time. Equally wide-ranging is the content of the poetry itself: war songs and political protests jostle with poems about human love, African nature and the surprises that life offers; all are represented in these rich and colourful pages.
Author | : Leonard Forster |
Publisher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140585469 |
Download The Penguin Book of German Verse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection moves from medieval lyrics and ballads to the Protestant hymns of the 16th century, to the great explosion of German literature with Goethe and Schiller, taking in the isolated genius of Hoelderin, and then on to late 19th-century naturalism, the post-World War I expressionists, and several notable poets in this century, including Loerke and Bertolt Brecht.
Author | : Michael Alexander |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780520015043 |
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Author | : P J Keegan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1184 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141941871 |
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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
Author | : Max Egremont |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1743531516 |
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2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets - many of whom were killed - show not only the war's tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves who would later spurn his war poems; the nature- loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke; and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols all fought in the war, and their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of unprecedented destruction. Some Desperate Glory includes a chronological anthology of their poems, with linking commentary, telling the story of the war through their art. This unique volume unites the poetry and the history of the war, so often treated separately, granting readers the pride, strife, and sorrow of the individual soldier's experience coupled with a panoramic view of the war's toll on an entire nation.