Survivors' songs : from Maldon to the Somme /

From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Sieg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stallworthy, Jon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
1900-1999
War poetry, English > History and criticism.
War in literature.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Poésie anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
War and literature
War in literature
War poetry, English
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Death of the hero
  • Survivors' songs
  • England's epic?
  • Who was Rupert Brooke?
  • Christ and the soldier
  • Owen's afterlife
  • Owen and his editors
  • Legacy of the Somme
  • Iconography of the Waste Land
  • War and peace
  • Fire from heaven
  • Henry Reed and the Great Good Place
  • Fury and the mire.

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