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Best World War I Poetry Books - Historical WWI Poems & Soldier's Verses - Perfect for History Buffs & Literature Lovers
Best World War I Poetry Books - Historical WWI Poems & Soldier's Verses - Perfect for History Buffs & Literature Lovers

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Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including: * Classical * Formalist * Psychoanalytic * Marxist * Structuralist * Reader-response* New Historicist* Feminist Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////1."Channel firing"; "In time of 'the breaking of nations'" / Thomas Hardy -- A Shropshire Lad XXXV -- "On the idle hill of summer" / A.E. Housman -- 2."The hospital visitor" / Alys Fane Trotter -- "In a soldier's hospital I: Pluck"; "In a soldier's hospital II: Gramophone tunes" / Eva Dobell -- 3."May, 1915" / Charlotte Mew -- "To America" / James Weldon Johnson -- "In Flanders fields" / John McCrae -- 4."Tears"; "Rain" / Edward Thomas -- "Now that you too must shortly go the way" / Eleanor Farjeon -- 5."A memory" / Margaret Sackville -- "There will come soft rains" / Sara Teasdale -- 6."They"; "The rear-guard"; "The glory of women"; "Atrocities" / Siegfried Sassoon -- 7."Nineteen fourteen: The soldier"; "Nineteen fourteen: The dead" / Rupert Brooke -- "A war film" / Teresa Hooley -- "The little peoples" / Claude McKay -- 8."Break of day in the trenches"; "Louse hunting"; "Returning, we hear the larks" / Isaac Rosenberg. Table of Contents  Introduction   1 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and A.E. Housman (1859-1936)   2 Alys Fane Trotter (1863-1961) and Eva Dobell (1867-1973)   3 Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) and John McCrae (1872-1918)   4 Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)   5 Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) and Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)   6 Siegfried Sassoon   7 Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and Teresa Hooley (1888-1973)   8 Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) and Leon Gellert (1892-1977)   9 Marian Allen (1892-1953), Vera Brittain (1893-1970), and Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980)   10 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)   11 E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) and David Jones(1895-1974)     Afterword:Critical Pluralism     Notes     Bibliography     Glossary of MajorWWI Poets     Index

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