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Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
• Classical
• Formalist
• Psychoanalytic
• Marxist
• Structuralist
• Reader-response
• New Historicist
• Feminist
Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.
Table of Contents
1.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
2.Alys Fane Trotter (1863-1961) and Eva Dobell (1867-1973)
3.Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) and John McCrae (1872-1918)
4.Edward Thomas (1878-1917) and Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
5.Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) and Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
6.Siegfried Sassoon
7.Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and Teresa Hooley (1888-1973)
8.Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) and Leon Gellert (1892-1977)
9.Marian Allen (1892-1953), Vera Brittain (1893-1970), and Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980)
10.Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
11.E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) and David Jones (1895-1974)
Afterword:Critical Pluralism
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Major WWI Poets
Index
Product details
| Published | Mar 13 2014 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781472506559 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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