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Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198704478
First edition published under title: The Oxford book of war poetry.
Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199554539
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 First and Second World Wars, and beyond. Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they reveal a great shift in social awareness fromman'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.
Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : War poetry
ISBN : 0192825844
Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : War poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002566516
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.
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191569371
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe. The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.
Author : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195042328
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms.
Author : David Lehman,John Brehm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780195162516
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
Author : Stewart Brown,Mark A. McWatt
Publisher : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 0199561591
The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191642050
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.
Author : Alastair Fowler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199556298
Alistair Fowler's celebrated anthology includes generous selections from the work of all the century's major poets, notably Donne, Jonson, Milton, Drayton, Herbert, Marvell, and Dryden. It strikes a balance between Metaphysical wit and intellect and Jonsonian simplicity, while also accommodating hitherto neglected popular verse. The result is a truer, more Catholic representation of seventeenth-century verse than any previous anthology.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199543410
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0198121377
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805560
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Author : Cecilia Vicuña,Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195124545
The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.
Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199282668
The Handbook ranges widely and in depth across 20th-century war poetry, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the key poets of the period. It is an essential resource for scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates. Contributors include some of the most important international poetry critics of our time.