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English
Oxford University Press
10 December 2013
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone.

Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war.

This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets.

Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War.

A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness.

The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context.

Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised.

Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.

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Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   476g
ISBN:   9780199581443
ISBN 10:   0199581444
Series:   Oxford World's Classics
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

<br>Tim Kendall has taught at the universities of Oxford, Newcastle, and Bristol before becoming Professor and Head of English at the University of Exeter. His publications for OUP include Modern English War Poetry and The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry, and he is writing War Poetry: AVery Short Introduction. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Complete Literary Works of Ivor Gurney.<br>

Reviews for Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology

A superb, unbeatable collection Bel Mooney, Daily Mail The best poetry collection I read brilliantly edited, with illuminating notes. Jerard Bretts, the guardian This is a thoroughly well produced anthology of powerful and fascinating poems. Sheenagh Pugh This is much the best selection yet made ... Kendall selects brilliantly. Peter McDonald, Times Literary Supplement As a student-friendly definition of the Great War canon, and as a piece of meticulous scholarship, this one will be hard to beat. George Simmers, Great War Fiction This is a book worthy of any bookshelf. Evil Cyclist's Blog


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