Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 - Couverture souple

Gardner, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413595706 ISBN 13 : 9780413595706

Editeur : Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Since its publication in 1964, Brian Gardner's Up the Line to Death has established itself as one of the most complete and compelling anthologies of poetry from the First World War. Before his death on active service in 1918 Wilfred Owen said, "Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War and the pity of War." This anthology is also concerned with the stark reality of war but shows how poetry can be used to convey horror and fear, how a form associated with declarations of love can similarly leave a reader feeling disturbed and uncomfortable. Seventy-two poets are represented, of whom twenty-one died in action. Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen and Thomas Hardy are all here, as well as poets almost entirely forgotten now. From the early exultation to the bitter disillusion, the tragedy of the Great War is carefully traced in the words of those who lived through it.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0413595706
• ISBN 13: 9780413595706
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222