Three Poets of the First World War
$37.18
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
An important new selection of First World War poetry, edited by Jon Stallworthy and Jane Potter
This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred Owen’s celebrated verses such as ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Strange Meeting’, along with many of his lesser-known works. The elegiac poems of Ivor Gurney, including ‘Requiem’ and ‘The Silent One…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141182075 |
| Author: | Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Jane Potter, Jon Stallworthy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
Ivor Gurney
Ivor Gurney was born in 1890 and was a gifted chorister, composer, and poet. His musical studies were interrupted by the war, during which he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1918. He spent the last fifteen years of his life in mental hospitals, dying of tuberculosis in 1937.
Isaac Rosenberg was born in 1890 and grew up in London’s East End. He studied painting at the Slade School before enlisting in the army in 1915. He was killed at the Somme in 1918.
Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 and grew up in Shropshire. He initially hoped to become a priest, but having become disillusioned with the church, he tutored English in France. He returned to England in 1915 to enlist and was killed at the front one week before the end of the war.
Jon Stallworthy is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.
Jane Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University. Her monograph is entitled Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women’s Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 (2005).
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