Fields of agony : British poetry of the First World War / Stuart Sillars.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sillars, Stuart.

Series:

Humanities Insights

Literature insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Poetry.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An illustrated study of poetry written by men and women in all parts of the British Isles during the First World War, 1914 - 18.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Licence""; ""Title""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""�What did they expect?�: The nature of war poetry""; ""1.1 The Invention of War Poetry""; ""1.2 The Place of Poetry in 1914""; ""1.3 Issues of Gender""; ""1.4 Thomas Hardy (1840�1928): �Men who March Away�""; ""1.5 Conclusion""; ""1.6 A Note on Texts""; ""�To battle for the truth�: Popular Poetry""; ""2.1 Defining �Popular�""; ""2.2 Responses to war in popular art forms""; ""2.3 Ideal, Order and Consolation""

""2.4 Structure, idea and ideology in popular poetry""""2.5 Anthologies""; ""2.6 Other voices""; ""�Nobody asked what the women thought�: Poetry by Women""; ""3.1 Approaching War Poetry by Women ""; ""3.2 The Variety of Poetry by Women""; ""�Young blood and high blood�: Canonical writers""; ""4.1 Displaced nature: Graves, Blunden and Gurney""; ""4.2 Siegfried Sassoon (1886�1967)""; ""4.3 Wilfred Owen (1893�1918)""; ""4.4 Edward Thomas (1878�1917)""; ""4.5 Other cultures, other nations""; ""4.5.2 David Jones (1895�1974)""; ""4.5.3 Irish poetry""; ""4.5.4. Scottish poetry""

""Placing War Poetry""""5.1 War poetry and Modernism""; ""5.2 Last thoughts""; ""Insights ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612040597

9781282040595

1282040596

9781847600271

1847600271

OCLC:

743216853