Three Poets of the First World War
$31.08
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2012
Summary
Voices from the Trenches: Poetry of the First World War
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 el…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182070 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141182075 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| 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: | 10 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
About The Author
Ivor Gurney
Ivor Gurney, a gifted chorister, composer and poet, was born in 1890. 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, born in 1893, grew up in Shropshire and initially hoped to become a priest. Having become disillusioned with the church, he tutored English in France, but returned to England in 1915 to enlist. He 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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