The new Oxford book of war poetry / Jon Stallworthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stallworthy, Jon, editor.

Series:

Oxford books of prose & verse.

Oxford books of prose & verse

Standardized Title:

Oxford book of war poetry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton, amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. -- Publisher description.

Contents:

The Bible : from the Book of Exodus ; From The Second Book of Samuel

Homer (c.900 BC) : from The Iliad

Simonides (c.556-c.468 BC) : Thermopylae

Anonymous (4th century BC) : Hymn to The Fallen

Virgil (70-19 BC) : from The Aeneid

Horace (65-8BC) : from The Odes

Aneirin (6th century) : from The Gododdin

Rihaku (8th century) : Lament of the Frontier Guard

Anonymous (8th century) : The Finnesburh Fragment

Anonymous (10th century) : The Battle of Brunanburh

Anonymous (11th century) : The Battle of Maldon

Anonymous (12th century) : from The Song of Roland

Anonymous (12th century) : The Lament of Maev Leith-Dherg

Miroslav Holub (1923-1988) : The Fly

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) : from The Knight's Tale

Michael Drayton (1563-1631) : To the Cambro-Britons, and their harp, his Ballad of Agincourt

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) : from Astrophel, A Pastoral Elegie Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) : from The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) : 'Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead'

George Gascoigne (?1525-1577) : from The Fruits of War

George Peele (?1558-1596) : Farewell to Arms

John Donne (1572-1631) : A Burnt Ship

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) : The Soldier Going to the Field

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) : To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) : An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland

John Milton (1608-1674) : On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ; from Paradise Lost

Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706) : Song : Written at Sea in the First Dutch War, the night before an Engagement

John Dryden (1631-1700) : from Annus Mirabilis

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) : from The Spanish Descent

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) : from The Campaign : A Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough

Robert Southey (1774-1843) : The Battle of Blenheim

James Thomson (1700-1748) : Rule, Britania!

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) : from The Vanity of Human Wishes

John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783) : The Drum

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) : Ye Mariners of England ; Hohenlinden

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1850) : Old Man Travelling ; 'It is not to be thought of that the flood' ; To the Men of Kent ; November, 1806

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) : from The Revolt of Islam

Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) : The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna

Joel Barlow (1754-1812) : Advice to a Raven in Russia

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) : The Year 1812

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) : Russia 1812

Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) : At Vshchizh

Robert Browning (1812-1889) : Incident of the French Camp

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : from The Dynasts

George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : The Destruction of Sennacherib ; from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ; from Don Juan ; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) : from Horatius

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) : from Edinburgh after Flodden

Matthew Arnold (1822-888) : from Sohrab and Rustum

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : The Revenge ; The Charge of the Light Brigade ; from Maud

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) : The Due of the Dead

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Concord Hymn

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : Beat! Beat! Drums! ; Come up from the Fields Father ; Virgil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night ; The Wound-Dresser ; Reconciliation

Herman Melville (1819-1891) : The Portent ; Ball's Bluff ; Shiloh ; The College Colonel

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : 'My Portion is Defeat

today

' ; 'My Triumph lasted till the Drums'

Stephen Crane (1871-1900) : 'Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind'

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) : from Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) : The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Allen Tate (1889-1979) : Ode to the Confederate Dead

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) : Last evening

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) : from Eighteen-Seventy

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Arithmetic on the Frontier ; Tommy

Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) : He Fell among Thieves ; Vitaï Lampada

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Embarcation ; The Colonel's Soliloquy ; A Christmas Ghost-Story ; Drummer Hodge ; A Wife in London ; The Man He Killed

A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : 'On the idle hill of summer' : 'Soldier from the wars returning' ; Grenadier ; Lancer ; Astronomy

T.W.H. Crosland (1865-1924) : Slain

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) : War

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Bridge-Guard in the Karroo : The Dykes

Herbert Asquith (1881-1947) : The Volunteer

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Men Who March Away ; In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) : Peace ; The Dead ; The Soldier

Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) : Breakfast

Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1888-1917) : 'I saw a man this morning'

Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) : Into Battle

John McCrae (1872-1918) : In Flanders Fields

T.P. Cameron Wilson (1889-1918) : Magpies in Picardy

Charles Sorley (1895-1915) : 'All the hills and vales along' ; 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'

A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

Hugh MacDiardmid (1892-1978) : Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) : Grass

Robert Frost (1874-1963) : Range-Finding

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : The Death of a Soldier

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) : Calligram, 15 May 1915

Benjamin Péret (1899-1959) : Little Song of the Maimed

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) : On Being Asked for a War Poem ; Sixteen Dead Men ; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ; Reprisals ; The Second Coming

Robert W. Service (1874-1958) : Only a Boche ; Tipperary Days

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) : The Redeemer ; Christ and the Soldier ; 'They' ; The Hero ; The General ; Glory of Women ; Everyone Sang

Stephen Spender (1909-1995) : Two Armies ; Ultima Ratio Regum

Bernard Spencer (1909-1963) : A Thousand Killed

Herbert Read (1893-1968) : To a Conscript of 1940

Louis Aragon (1897-1983) : The Lilacs of the Roses

C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) : The Stand-To ; Where are the War Poets?

David Gascoyne (1916-2001) : Ecce Homo ; Spring MCMXL

Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) : A book in the Ruins

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) : Still Falls the Rain

H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : from The Walls Do Not Fall

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : The Streets of Laredo

R.N. Currey (1907-2001) : Unseen Fire

Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) : Prize for Good Conduct

Henry Reed (1914-1986) : Lessons of the War

Alun Lewis (1915-1944) : All day it has rained ... ; Dawn on the East Coast ; Goodbye ; Song

Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) : from The Foreign Gate ; Timoshenko ; from The Wilderness

John Manifold (1915-1985) : The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF

Keith Douglas (1920-1944) : John Anderson ; Gallantry ; Vergissmeinnicht ; Aristocrats

John Jarmain (1911-1944) : El Alamein

Norman Cameron (1905-1953) : Green, Green is El Aghir

F.T. Prince (1912-2003) : Soldiers Bathing

Roy Fuller (1912-1991) : The Middle of a War

Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) : Careless Love

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : In Idstrust of Merits

Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) : The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) : Eighth Air Force ; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunn ; A Camp in the Prussian Forest ; A Front

W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) : 'After Experience Taught Me ... ' ; Returned to Frisco, 1946

Louis Simpson (1923-2012) : Carentan O Carentan ; Memories of a Lost War ; The Battle ; The Heroes

Richard Wilbur (1921- ) ; First Snow in Alsace ; Terza Rima

Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) : Rank

Vernon Scannell (1922-2007) : Walking Wounded

Paul Dehn (1912-1976) : St Aubin D'Aubigné

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : The hand that signed the paper

James Dickey (1923-1997) : The Firebombing

Ephim Fogel (1920-1992) : Shipment to Maidanek

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : from Sonnets from China

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) : 'More Light! More Light!' ; The Book of Yolek

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) : Claus Von Stauffenberg

Charles Causley (1917-2003) : Armistice Day ; At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux

Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) : In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) : The War in the Air ; Redeployment

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) : Memorial Rain

John Pudney (1909-1977) : For Johnny

James Tate (1943- ) : The Lost Pilot

George MacBeth (1932-1992) : The Land-Mine

Alan Ross (1922-2001) : Off Brighton Pier

Andrew Motion (1952- ) : Now Then

Geoffrey Hill (1932) : September Song

W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : The Shield of Achilles

Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) : I Am Goya

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) : Fall 1961 ; For the Union Dead

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : A Vow

Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : What Were They Like?

Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) : To Whom It May Concern

Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) : Facing It ; Starlight Scope Myopia

W.D. Ehrhart (1948- ) : Beautiful Wreckage

Bruce Weigl (1949- ) : Song of Napalm

John Balaban (1943- ) : After Our War ; In Celebration of Spring

Ngo Vinh Long (1944- ) : Untitled

James Fenton (1949- ) : Dead Soldiers

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) : Requiem for the Croppies ; Whatever You Say Say Nothing ; The Strand at Lough Beg

Carolyn Forché (1951- ) : The Colonel

David Harsent (1942- ) : Snapshots (I) ; The Piss-pail

Peter Wyton (1944- ) : Unmentioned in Dispatches

Richard Wilbur (1921- ) : Advice to a Prophet

William Stafford (1914-1993) : At the Bomb Testing Site

Peter Porter (1929-2010) : Your Attention Please.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-105330-9

0-19-870448-8

0-19-105329-5

OCLC:

893653926