Perspectives on World War I poetry /
Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto 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 poet...
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Bloomsbury UK,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-Ttle; Series; Also Available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Abrams scheme; Literary theories: A brief overview; Applying the theories: Carl Sandburg's "Grass"; 1; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): "Channel firing"; "In time of 'the breaking of nations'"; A.E. Housman (1859-1936): A Shropshire Lad XXXV-"On the idle hill of summer"; 2; Alys Fane Trotter (1863-1961): "The hospital visitor"; Eva Dobell (1867-1973): "In a soldier's hospital I: Pluck"; "In a soldier's hospital II: Gramophone tunes"; 3.
- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928): "May, 1915"James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938): "To America"; John McCrae (1872-1918): "In Flanders fields"; 4; Edward Thomas (1878-1917): "Tears"; "Rain"; Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965): "Now that you too must shortly go the way"; 5; Margaret Sackville (1881-1963): "A memory"; Sara Teasdale (1884-1933): "There will come soft rains"; 6; Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967): "They"; "The rear-guard"; "The glory of women"; "Atrocities"; 7; Rupert Brooke (1887-1915): "Nineteen fourteen: The soldier"; "Nineteen fourteen: The dead"; Teresa Hooley (1888-1973): "A war film."
- Claude McKay (1889-1948): "The little peoples"8; Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918): "Break of day in the trenches"; "Louse hunting"; "Returning, we hear the larks"; Leon Gellert (1892-1977): "A night attack"; "Anzac Cove"; 9; Marian Allen (1892-1953): "The wind on the downs"; Vera Brittain (1893-1970): "To my brother (In memory of July 1st, 1916)"; Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980): "The veteran"; 10; Wilfred Owen (1893-1918): "Anthem for doomed youth"; "Arms and the boy"; "Disabled"; "Dulce et Decorum Est"; "Futility"; "Stran; 11; E.E. Cummings (1894-1962): "I sing of Olaf."
- "My sweet old etcetera"David Jones (1895-1974): In Parenthesis (excerpt from Section VII); 12 The kinds of questions different critics ask; Plato; Aristotle; Horace; Longinus; Traditional historical criticism; Thematic criticism; Formalism; Psychoanalytic criticism; Archetypal criticism; Marxist criticism; Feminist criticism; Structuralist criticism; Deconstructionism; Reader-response criticism; Dialogical criticism; New historicism; Multiculturalism; Postmodernism; Ecocriticism; Darwinian criticism; Works Cited; Further Reading; Permissins; Index of Theories and Applications.
