The War Against Poetry

Author : Russell A. Fraser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400869039

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The War Against Poetry by Russell A. Fraser Pdf

The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, in Professor Fraser's view, part of a larger cultural movement: the disengagement of the modern world from its medieval antecedents. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191642050

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Poetry of the First World War by Tim Kendall Pdf

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 : Jon Stallworthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : War poetry
ISBN : 0192825844

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The Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy Pdf

Author : Edward Brunner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0252072170

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Cold War Poetry by Edward Brunner Pdf

Mainstream American poetry of the 1950s has long been dismissed as deliberately indifferent to its cultural circumstances. In this penetrating study, Edward Brunner breaks the placid surface of the hollow decade to reveal a poetry sharply responsive to issues of its time. Cold War Poetry considers the fifties poem as part of a dual cultural project: as proof of the competency of the newly professionalized poet and as a user-friendly way of initiating a newly educated, upwardly mobile postwar audience into high culture. Brunner revisits Richard Wilbur, Randall Jarrell, and other acknowledged leaders of the period as well as neglected writers such as Rosalie Moore, V. R. Lang, Katherine Hoskins, Melvin B. Tolson, and Hyam Plutzik. He also examines the one-sided authority of the (male-dominated) book review process, the ostracizing of female and minority poets, poetic fads such as the ubiquitous sestina, and the power of the classroom anthology to establish criteria for reading. Attributing the gradual change in poetic style during the 1950s to the slow collapse of the authority of the state, Brunner shows how a secretive, anxious poetics developed in the shadow of a disabled government. He recontextualizes the much-maligned domestic verse of the 1950s, reading its shift toward the private sphere and the recurrent image of the child as a reflection of the powerlessness of the post-nuclear citizen. Through a close examination of poetry written about the Bomb, he delineates how poets registered their growing sense of cosmic disorder in coded language, resorting to subterfuge to continue their critique in the face of sanctions levied against those who questioned government policies. Brilliantly decoding the politics embedded in the poetry of an ostensibly apolitical time, Cold War Poetry provides a powerful rereading of a pivotal decade.

Author : Richard Marius
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231100027

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The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry by Richard Marius Pdf

Poetry, prose, photos, and songs of the Civil War. The authors range from hawks to doves. In the former category, James Madison Bell wrote: "The pleasing duty still remains / To sing a people from their chains."

Author : Carolyn Forché
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393309762

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Against Forgetting by Carolyn Forché Pdf

Modern poems deal with genocide, wars, revolutions, the Holocaust, political repression, apartheid, and the democracy movement in China

Author : Carolyn Forché,Duncan Wu
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393347661

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Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 by Carolyn Forché,Duncan Wu Pdf

A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.

Author : Hasan Namir
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1771664932

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War / Torn by Hasan Namir Pdf

Hasan Namir's debut collection of poetry, War / Torn, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity--the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer, violence, and the sensuality of love, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred. Praise for War / Torn: War / Torn mourns, loves and burns all the derogatory impulses of our continuous present. This book is of and against our time. War / Torn is a breathless elegy in the most defiantly tender poetics you can imagine. --Jordan Scott, author of Night & Ox, and winner of the Latner Poetry Prize by the Writer's Trust of Canada

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536215939

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The Day War Came by Nicola Davies Pdf

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies’s text combines with Rebecca Cobb’s expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.

Author : cornelius eady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0936481277

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The War Against the Obvious by cornelius eady Pdf

Some of the finest poems by one of the U.S.'s most accomplished poets - with added musical download of songs recorded by his band.

Author : Fran Brearton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261385

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The Great War in Irish Poetry by Fran Brearton Pdf

The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, andmemory of the Great War, in the context of Irish politics and culture in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which issues raised in 1912-20 still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland,particularly through such events as the Home Rule cause, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been recognised. This book shows first, that despite complications in Irish domestic politicswhich led to the repression of memory of the Great War, Irish poets have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18. This engagement is particularly true of those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years. The second main concern is the extent towhich recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has itself become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon.

Author : Tim Kendall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199276769

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Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall Pdf

Modern English War Poetry ranges widely across the twentieth century, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the most important poets of the period. It emphasizes the influence of war and war poetry even on those poets usually considered in other contexts, such as Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill.

Author : Jon Silkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141180099

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First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin Pdf

A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

Author : Siegfried Sassoon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486164687

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War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon by Siegfried Sassoon Pdf

Epigrammatic and bitterly satirical verses by the well-known English poet convey the shocking brutality and pointlessness of World War I. Includes "Counter-Attack," "They," "The General," "Base Details," and other poems.

Author : Oksana Maksymchuk,Max Rosochinsky
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9798887190037

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Words for War by Oksana Maksymchuk,Max Rosochinsky Pdf

The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. In addressing these themes, the poems also raise questions about art, politics, citizenship, and moral responsibility. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poetic voices from different regions of Ukraine. Young and old, female and male, somber and ironic, tragic and playful, filled with extraordinary terror and ordinary human delights, the voices recreate the human sounds of war in its tragic complexity.