The Oxford handbook of British and Irish war poetry /
This handbook ranges across 20th century war poetry discussing some of the key poets of the period. It is an essential resource for scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates. Contributors include some of the most important international poetry critics of our time
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007
Oxford ; New York : 2007 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Fighting talk : Victorian war poetry / Matthew Bevis
- 2. 'Graver things ... braver things' : Hardy's war poetry / Ralph Pite
- 3. From Dark defile to Gethsemane : Rudyard Kipling's war poetry / Daniel Karlin
- 4. War poetry and the realm of the senses : Owen and Rosenberg / Santanu Das
- 5. 'Many sisters to many brothers' : the women poets of the First World War / Stacy Gillis
- 6. Wilfred Owen / Mark Rawlinson
- 7. Shakespeare and the Great War / John Lee
- 8. Was there a Scottish war literature? : Scotland, poetry, and the First World War / David Goldie
- 9. War poetry, or the poetry of war? : Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney / Vivien Noakes
- 10. Great War and modernist poetry / Vincent Sherry
- 11. war of friendship : Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon / Fran Brearton
- 12. 'Easter, 1916' : Yeats's First World War poem / Marjorie Perloff
- 13. 'What the dawn will bring to light' : credulity and commitment in the ideological construction of 'Spain' / Stan Smith
- 14. Unwriting the good fight : W. H. Auden's 'Spain 1937' / Rainer Emig
- 15. War, politics, and disappearing poetry : Auden, Yeats, Empson / John Lyon
- 16. 'Others have come before you' : the influence of Great War poetry on Second World War poets / Dawn Bellamy
- 17. 'Death's proletariat' : Scottish poets of the Second World War / Roderick Watson
- 18. Occupying new territory : Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh-language poetry of the Second World War / Gerwyn Wiliams
- 19. muse that failed : poetry and patriotism during the Second World War / Helen Goethals
- 20. Louis MacNeice's war / Peter McDonald
- 21. Sidney Keyes in historical perspective / Geoffrey Hill
- 22. Anthologizing war / Hugh Haughton
- 23. Women's poetry of the First and Second World Wars / Simon Featherstone
- 24. War pastorals / Edna Longley
- 25. poetry of pain / Sarah Cole
- 26. 'Down in the terraces between the targets' : civilians / Peter Robinson
- 27. war remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes / Cornelia D. J. Pearsall
- 28. 'For Isaac Rosenberg' : Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal O Searcaigh / Tara Christie
- 29. Fury and the Mire / Jon Stallworthy
- 30. 'This is plenty. This is more than enough' : poetry and the memory of the Second World War / Gareth Reeves
- 31. British Holocaust poetry : songs of experience / Claire M. Tylee
- 32. Quiet Americans : responses to war in some British and American poetry of the 1960s / Alan Marshall
- 33. Pointing to east and west : British Cold War poetry / Adam Piette
- 34. 'Dichtung und Wahrheit' : contemporary war and the non-combatant poet / David Wheatley
- 35. 'That dark permanence of ancient forms' : negotiating with the epic in Northern Irish poetry of the troubles / Paul Volsik
- 36. 'Stalled in the pre-articulate' : Heaney, poetry, and war / Brendan Corcoran
- 37. Unavowed engagement : Paul Muldoon as war poet / April Warman.
- 1 Fighting talk : Victorian war poetry / Matthew Bevis
- 2. 'Graver things ... braver things' : Hardy's war poetry / Ralph Pite
- 3. From Dark defile to Gethsemane : Rudyard Kipling's war poetry / Daniel Karlin
- 4. War poetry and the realm of the senses : Owen and Rosenberg / Santanu Das
- 5. 'Many sisters to many brothers' : the women poets of the First World War / Stacy Gillis
- 6. Wilfred Owen / Mark Rawlinson
- 7. Shakespeare and the Great War / John Lee
- 8. Was there a Scottish war literature? : Scotland, poetry, and the First World War / David Goldie
- 9. War poetry, or the poetry of war? : Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney / Vivien Noakes
- 10. The Great War and modernist poetry / Vincent Sherry
- 11. A war of friendship : Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon / Fran Brearton
- 12. 'Easter, 1916' : Yeats's First World War poem / Marjorie Perloff
- 13. 'What the dawn will bring to light' : credulity and commitment in the ideological construction of 'Spain' / Stan Smith
- 14. Unwriting the good fight : W. H. Auden's 'Spain 1937' / Rainer Emig
- 15. War, politics, and disappearing poetry : Auden, Yeats, Empson / John Lyon
- 16. 'Others have come before you' : the influence of Great War poetry on Second World War poets / Dawn Bellamy
- 17. 'Death's proletariat' : Scottish poets of the Second World War / Roderick Watson
- 18. Occupying new territory : Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh-language poetry of the Second World War / Gerwyn Wiliams
- 19. The muse that failed : poetry and patriotism during the Second World War / Helen Goethals
- 20. Louis MacNeice's war / Peter McDonald
- 21. Sidney Keyes in historical perspective / Geoffrey Hill
- 22. Anthologizing war / Hugh Haughton
- 23. Women's poetry of the First and Second World Wars / Simon Featherstone
- 24. War pastorals / Edna Longley
- 25. The poetry of pain / Sarah Cole
- 26. 'Down in the terraces between the targets' : civilians / Peter Robinson
- 27. The war remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes / Cornelia D. J. Pearsall
- 28. 'For Isaac Rosenberg' : Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal O Searcaigh / Tara Christie
- 29. The Fury and the Mire / Jon Stallworthy
- 30. 'This is plenty. This is more than enough' : poetry and the memory of the Second World War / Gareth Reeves
- 31. British Holocaust poetry : songs of experience / Claire M. Tylee
- 32. Quiet Americans : responses to war in some British and American poetry of the 1960s / Alan Marshall
- 33. Pointing to east and west : British Cold War poetry / Adam Piette
- 34. 'Dichtung und Wahrheit' : contemporary war and the non-combatant poet / David Wheatley
- 35. 'That dark permanence of ancient forms' : negotiating with the epic in Northern Irish poetry of the troubles / Paul Volsik
- 36. 'Stalled in the pre-articulate' : Heaney, poetry, and war / Brendan Corcoran
- 37. Unavowed engagement : Paul Muldoon as war poet / April Warman.