Playing the Game : Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt / edited by John Howlett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howlett, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938.

Newbolt, Henry John.

Poetry--Appreciation.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Two of Henry Newbolt's poems, 'Vitaï Lampada' and 'Drake's Drum', became staples of poetry anthologies and were able to be recited by every school-boy. His poetry was also deeply significant in constructing ideas around late Victorian/Edwardian imperial manliness. A consequence of this was that Newbolt became in his own time one of the best known and most popular of writers. However, in the years since his death, his work has fallen into comparative critical neglect and he has been seen as a mouthpiece for the worst aspects of his age. The aim therefore of this new edition is to place the poet's literary work in a broader context that has hitherto not been addressed as well as offering a fresh appraisal of a significant literary figure. Aside from careful consideration of the poetry, of equal interest is Newbolt's active public life. He contributed widely to government committees and debates on education, as well as working for the propaganda bureau in the First World War and advising on the Irish question. The links between his poetry - which spanned over three decades - and the socio-economic changes under way in the British Isles at the time are a primary theme of John Howlett's substantial Introduction to the work. Exploring this wider historical context means that this book is an essential research tool for the field of Victorian and Edwardian poetry but also cultural studies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

The Poems

from Admirals All and Other Verses, 1897

Admirals All

San Stefano

Drake's Drum

Hawke

The Fighting Téméraire

Vitaï Lampada

He Fell Among Thieves

Ionicus

Minora Sidera

from The Island Race, 1898

The Vigil

Admiral Death

Messmates

The Death of Admiral Blake

The Non-Combatant

Clifton Chapel

The Echo

Fidele's Grassy Tomb

Imogen

Nel Mozzo del Cammín

The Invasion

Ireland, Ireland

Moonset

from The Sailing of the Long-Ships and Other Poems, 1902

The Sailing of the Long-Ships

Waggon Hill

The Volunteer

The Schoolfellow

The Only Son

The School at War

By the Hearth-Stone

Commemoration

The Nile

Outward Bound

From Generation to Generation

When I Remember

The Viking's Song

Yattendon

A Sower

Northumberland

from Songs of Memory and Hope, 1909

Sacrementum Supremum

Devon

The Mossrose

Ave, Soror

To a River in the South

The Presentation

Amore Altiero

Against Oblivion

The Inheritance

The Pedlar's Song

An Essay on Criticism

Le Byron de Nos Jours

or, The English Bar and Cross Reviewers

from Poems: New and Old, 1912

April on Waggon Hill

Songs of the Fleet:

I. Sailing at Dawn

II. The Song of the Sou' Wester

III. The Middle Watch

IV. The Little Admiral

V. The Song of the Guns at Sea

VI. Farewell

Rilloby-Rill

from St. George's Day and Other Poems, 1918

The War Films

St. George's Day

Hic Jacet

The King's Highway

A Chanty of the Emden

The Toy Band

A Letter from the Front

from A Perpetual Memory and Other Poems, 1939

The Great Memory

March 5, 1921

The Linnet's Nest

The Nightjar

The Star in the West

A Perpetual Memory

To Christopher

A Letter to R.B. after a Visit

Cricket.

Epitaph on a Public Man

The Old to the Young

Poet's Epitaph

Appendix A NOTES

Appendix B GOODCHILD'S GARLAND: DIVERSIONS AND PERVERSIONS, 1909

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9781837645282

1837645280