Description
| Product ID: | 9780198704478 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
| Title: | The New Oxford Book of War Poetry |
| Authors: | Author: Jon Stallworthy |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A new edition of Jon Stallworthy's acclaimed anthology marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Complete with a revised introduction and 42 new poems, the volume offers diverse account of war poetry from Homer's The Iliad to poems written about the wars of the twenty-first century. There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy''s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer''s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-06-26 |