English Poetry of the First World War / / John H. Johnston.
The author deals with the shock of World War I as it was registered in the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Herbert Read, and David Jones. He finds in Read and Jones the culmination of a tendency away from personal lyric response toward formal...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1964 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Foreground and Background
- Ii. The Early Poets
- III. Realism and Satire: Siegfried Sassoon
- IV. Undertones : Edmund Blunden
- V. Poetry and Pity: Wilfred Owen
- VI. Poetry and Pity: Isaac Rosenberg
- VII. The "Higher Reality": Herbert Read
- VIII. The Heroic Vision: David Jones
- Bibliography
- Index