The Oxford handbook of British and Irish war poetry

The Oxford handbook of British and Irish war poetry / edited by Tim Kendall.

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kendall, Tim, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
1900-1999
War poetry, English > History and criticism.
War poetry, English > Irish authors > History and criticism.
English poetry > 20th century.
English poetry
War poetry, English
Oorlog.
Gedichten.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Ierland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tim Kendall
  • Part I. Beginnings: 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
  • Part II. The Great War: 4. First World War poetry and the realm of the senses : Owen and Rosenberg / Santanu Das
  • 5. 'Many sisters to many brothers' : woman 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 World War I poem / Marjorie Perloff
  • Part III. Entre deux guerres: 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.
  • Part IV. The Second World War: 16. 'Others have come before you' : the influence of the Great War on Second World War poets / Dawn Bellamy
  • 17. Death's proletariat : Scottish poets of the Second World War / Roderick Watson
  • 18. New territory : Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh 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
  • Part V. Continuities in modern war poetry: 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 Ó Searcaigh / Tara Christie
  • 29. The fury and the mire / Jon Stallworthy
  • Part VI. 'Post-war' poetry: 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
  • Part VII. Northern Ireland: 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.

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