The Oxford Book of War Poetry
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Book Overview
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict - from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and El Salvador, as well as the chilling visions of the 'Next War'. Reflecting the feelings of authors as diverse as Virgil, Daniel Defoe, Emily Dickinson, and Adrian Mitchell, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory war-songs to the more recent anti-war attitudes of poets responding to 'man's inhumanity to man', and to women and children. Book jacket.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0192141252
ISBN13:9780192141255
Release Date:October 1984
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:388 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Great Selection of poems
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
The book provides a great selection of poems, organized by date. The introduction is also very interesting, even if you don't have much knowledge about war poetry, the introduction gives you a lot of information about it.
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