Perspectives on World War I Poetry

by Evans, Robert C.
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ISBN: 9781472513106
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Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
- Classical
- Formalist
- Psychoanalytic
- Marxist
- Structuralist
- Reader-response
- New Historicist
- Feminist

Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Evans, Robert C.
  • ISBN: 9781472513106
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 240
  • Publication Year: 2014
Language: English

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