Rendezvous with death : artists and writers in the thick of it 1914-1918 / Tony Geraghty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geraghty, Tony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists--England--20th century.

Artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, England : Pen and Sword Military, 2017.

Summary:

This book sheds new light on the colorful personalities including Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, all major figures among England's creative artists during the First World War.Thanks to the authors research and knowledge, the book is a very English story about the tragically short spring of English artistic creativity between 1910 and 1920; the greatest such renaissance since Shakespeare and Purcell in the 17th century. It focuses on these exceptional poets, composers and artists' experiences in the front line and what resulted from these.A short personal Preface records that the authors father, Sergeant Major Anthony Geraghty (later anglicized as Garrity) survived one year and 271 days on the front line with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders including the Somme, in which he served alongside the composer Butterworth in 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9781473896567

1473896568

9781473896543

1473896541

9781473896550

147389655X