Modern English War Poetry
Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's finest poets--combatants and non-combatants alike--and considers how they address the ethicalchallenges of making art out of violence. Poetry, we are often told, makes nothing happen. But war makes poetry happen: the war poet cannot regret, and must exalt at, even the most appalling experiences. Modern English War Poetry not only assesses the problematic relationship between war and itspoets, it also encourages an urgent reconsideration of the modern…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-927676-9
- EAN: 9780199276769
- Produktnummer: 22682081
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B16.6 cm x D2.2 cm 458 g
- Gewicht: 458
Über den Autor
Tim Kendall was born in Plymouth in 1970. As well as founding and editing the international poetry magazine, Thumbscrew, he has published critical studies of Paul Muldoon and Sylvia Plath. His first book of poetry, Strange Land, was published by Carcanet in 2005. He teaches at the University of Bristol, and lives with his wife and three children in North Wiltshire.
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