Survivors' Songs
From Maldon to the Somme
$34.99 (P)
- Author: Jon Stallworthy, University of Oxford
- Date Published: November 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521727891
$
34.99
(P)
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback, eBook
Looking for an examination copy?
If you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the wider context of writing about warfare from prehistoric Troy to Anglo-Saxon England; from Agincourt to Flanders; from El Alamein to Vietnam; from the wars of yesterday to the wars of tomorrow.
Read more- An important new work from one of the best-known scholars of First World War poetry
- Beautifully written, with much to interest the general reader
- Includes readings of First World War poets in the context of war writing across the ages
Reviews & endorsements
“Stallworthy’s book comes highly recommended,…The book has the tenor of a series of advanced ongoing literary essays…There is much of value here for both the general and specialist reader.”
-MAJ Jeffrey Alfier, USAF, Retired, Tuscan, ArizonaCustomer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521727891
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 214 x 138 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.33kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The death of the hero
2. Survivors' songs
3. England's epic?
4. Who was Rupert Brooke?
5. Christ and the soldier
6. Owen's afterlife
7. Owen and his editors
8. The legacy of the Somme
9. The iconography of the waste land
10. War and peace
11. The fire from heaven
12. Henry Reed and the great good place
13. The fury and the mire
Index.
Related Books
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email [email protected]
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×