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Poetry and Myths of the Great War: How Poets Altered our Perception of History
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- Subject Area
- Military History, Poetry
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- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- ISBN
- 9781783463862
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Poetry and Myths of the Great War
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books LTD
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Subject
- History
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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The First World War has obsessed twentieth-century society as the conflict which marked a watershed in European history and which brought home to that continent the full horror of modern, industrialised war. It is also the only war where literature played a major part in forming society's perception of it, so much so that the phrase 'war poets' is now taken to mean the poets of the First World War. 'Poetry and Myths of the Great War' examines the various myths that have grown up around the war. It explores the historical and sociological myths of the Edwardian Summer, the supposedly banal nature poetry of the pre-war Georgian poets and the image of the British public schools as factories for unthinking cannon-fodder. It analyses the top command of the British Army and the idea that the British were 'lions led by donkeys'. Using contemporary material, it examines the life, mood and morale of junior officers and private soldiers. It offers a partial revaluation of the work of the most famous trench poets and examines in detail poetry from lesser-known authors, together with the work of authors not usually associated with the war. In part a confirmation and in part a rebuttal of many conventional views, contemporary diaries and letters, as well as popular literature and verse of the day, are used to challenge many of our preconceptions. A recent critic, noting the conformity of opinion about writers of the First World War, commented that society's vision of the war and its literature faced death by orthodoxy . 'Poetry and Myths of the Great War' is an attempt to show the announcement of that death a little premature, a task for which Martin Stephen is well qualified. AUTHOR: Martin Stephen was born in 1949. Educated at Uppingham School and the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, he studied literary and historical aspects of the First World War for doctoral thesis, and that, together with ten years' additional research, led to the publication of his widely acclaimed anthology of First World War Poetry, Never Such Innocence. He is the author of fourteen books on literature and naval history, including The Fighting Admirals and English Literature, and is a regular contributor to numerous magazines and journals.
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Pen & Sword Books LTD
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9781783463862
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Publication Name
Poetry and Myths of the Great War
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
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Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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