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International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices
Hardcover
Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismWorld War I
ISBN13: 9781350106444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 15 2020
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict.
Across over 150 poems, this anthology explores such topics as the following:- Psychological trauma
- Noncombatants and the home front
- Rationalising the war
- Remembering the dead
- Peace and the aftermath of the war With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems written by authors from America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, and South Africa.
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