Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, English Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, World War I - General & Miscellaneous, English Poetry - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism
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Overview
The poetry from the Great War is among the most powerful ever written in the English language. Unique for its immediacy and searing honesty, it has made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of and response to war and the suffering it creates. Widely acclaimed as an indispensable guide to the war poets and their work, Out of Battle explores in depth the variety of responses from Rupert Brook, Ford Madox Ford, Seigfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas to the events they witnessed. Other poets discussed are Hardy, Kipling, Charles Sorely, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington and David Jones. For this second edition of Out of Battle, a substantial new preface has been added, together with an appendix on the unresolved problems concerning the Owen manuscripts. An updated bibliography provides useful guidance for further reading.Editorials
Booknews
British poet Silkin's (1930-97) now classic study of the poetry his compatriots distilled from their experience in World War I, first published in 1971. He explores relevant poems by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, Wilfred Owen, David Jones, and others. He died while the edition was in press, having written a new preface by Silkin and notes on a missing 1918 folio by Wilfred Owen. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
February 16, 1978
Publisher
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1978, c1972.
Pages
366
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780192812254