British Poetry Of The Second World War

DIVRich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others. /div

An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.

On the thr anniversary of World War II, this book presents the war's women poets and their poetry - some famous like Deionize Levertov, Vita SackvilleWest, Dorothy Serres, Edith Sitwell, and Barbara Cartland, others forgotten. As the poets and their poetry unfold chronologically, with a section for each year of the war, readers can see how feelings changed, optimism grew to pessimism and then back again.

An overview of the English-language poetry of the Second World War, focussing on five of the most remarkable poets of that conflict.

A study of poetry written by men and women in all parts of the British Isles during the First World War, 1914â€"18. The book discusses significant individual poems by the writers named, exploring them within their social, political and aesthetic frames and.