The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Synopsis
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems in Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology span centuries of human experience of war, from David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the First and Second World Wars, and beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they chart a great shift in human awareness - from man's early celebratory war-songs' to the twentieth century's darker poetic responses to man's inhumanity to man'.Book details
- Author:
- Jon Stallworthy
- ISBN:
- 9780199554539
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780199554539
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Grades:
- Year 10 - 4th Form - KS4, Year 11 - 5th Form - KS4
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2016-04-15
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2008
- Copyright by:
- Oxford University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Language Arts, Nonfiction