248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1976. Poets from Homer and Virgil to Tennyson and Hardy have written much about armed conflict on land and sea but it was not until the end of the First World War that the term War Poetry was used to describe not merely that verse which took war as its subject but a kind of poetry which had not been written before, a literature which did not celebrate the martial virtues but one... Read more
Introduction - setting the scene; Keith Douglas; Alun Lewis; Sidney Keyes; Roy Fuller; Alan Ross and Charles Causley; Henry Reed and others; American poets of the Second World War.
Biography
Vernon Scannell
