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The Cambridge companion to the poetry of the First World War / edited by Santanu Das, King's College, London.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- War poetry--History and criticism.
- War poetry.
- World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- War poetry, English--History and criticism.
- War poetry, English.
- World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Literature and the war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
- Contents:
- Reframing First World War Poetry: An Introduction / Santanu Das
- First World War Poetry: A Cultural Landscape / Vincent Sherry
- Poetic Form and the First World War / Peter Howarth
- Part II Soldier-Poets
- Early Poets of the First World War / Elizabeth Vandiver
- Later Poets of the First World War / Mark Rawlinson
- Siegfried Sassoon / Sarah Cole
- Isaac Rosenberg / Neil Corcoran
- Wilfred Owen / Sandra M. Gilbert
- Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney / Edna Longley
- David Jones / Adrian Poole
- Part III Archipelagic, Colonial and Civilian War Poetry
- Archipelagic Poetry of the First World War / David Goldie
- Colonial Poetry of the First World War / Simon Featherstone
- Women's Poetry of the First World War / Margaret R. Higonnet
- Civilian War Poetry: Hardy and Kipling / Tim Kendall
- War, Empire and Modernist Poetry, 1914-1922 / Christine Froula
- Part IV Afterlives of First World War Poetry
- 'But that is not new': Poetic Legacies of the First World War / Fran Brearton
- Beyond Glory: First World War Poetry and Cultural Memory / Jay Winter
- War Poetry: A Conversation / Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-46065-4
- 1-139-08752-5
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