The Oxford Book of War Poetry: Second Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) - Couverture souple

 
9780199554539: The Oxford Book of War Poetry: Second Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)

Synopsis

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems in John Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology span centuries of human experience of war, from David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they chart a great shift in human awareness-from man's early celebratory "war-songs" to the twentieth century's darker poetic responses to "man's inhumanity to man"

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À propos de l'auteur

Jon Stallworthy is Professor of English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of 8 collections of poetry; works of criticism, and biographer of Wilfred Owen. He was an editor at OUP from 1959 to 1977.

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