Twelve soldier poets of the First World War Leading poet and former professor of English Literature, Jon Stallworthy tells the story of the lives and work of twelve major poets of the First World War and provides selections of their best work. The story of the 'war poets' is also the story of an awakening to the full horror of what the twentieth century came to know as 'The Great War'. Wilfred Owen said, 'My subject is War - and the pity of War'. He also said 'true Poets must be truthful'. The greatness of the poetrty lay not just in the writer's talent, but in the unflinching accuracy with which it portrayed their terrible circumstances.
Jon Stallworthy (Author)
Pub Date: 13 Oct 2005
Paperback 192pp
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