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Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon. A History of World War One Poetry examines popular and literary, ephemeral and enduring poems that the cataclysm of 1914-1918 inspired. Across Europe, poets wrestled with the same problem: how to represent a global conflict, dominated by modern technology, involving millions of combatants and countless civilians. For literary scholars this has meant discovering and engaging with the work of men and women writing in other languages, on other fronts, and from different national perspectives. Poems are presented in their original languages and in English translations, some for the very first time, while a Coda reflects on the study and significance of First World War poetry in the wake of the Centenary. A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.

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Author:   Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.950kg
ISBN:  

9781009100649

ISBN 10:   1009100645
Pages:   425
Publication Date:   12 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Jane Potter; Part I. Literary Contexts; 1. The Poetic Marketplace Vincent Trott; 2. Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Others Alisa Miller; 3. Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines Alex Goody; 4. Poetic Cultural Exchange: Continental European Literary Scene Ann-Marie Einhaus; 5. Poetic Form and Language Sandie Byrne; Part II. Nations and Voices; 6. Germany and Austria-Hungary Karen Leeder; 7. Czech War Poetry Zuzana Říhová; 8. France Nicolas Beaupré; 9. Belgium Geert Buelens; 10. Great Britain Stuart D Lee; 11. Ireland Gerald Dawe; 12. Russia Katharine Hodgson; 13. Serbia Dunja Dušanić; 14. USA Hazel Hutchison; 15. Italy Amy Boylan; 16. South Africa Gerhard Genis; 17. Australia and New Zealand Harry Ricketts; 18. Canada Joel Baetz; 19. South Asian Poetry Santanu Das; Part III. Poets; 20. Non-combatant and Others Carol Acton; 21. Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Guy Cuthbertson; 22. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) Laurence Campa; 23. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) and Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) John Greening; 24. Anna Akhmatova (1886-1966) Alexandra Harrington; 25. Mary Borden (1886-1968) Angela K. Smith; 26. Georg Trakl (1887-1914) Rüdiger Gröner; 27. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) Jean Liddiard; 28. Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) Philip Lancaster; 29. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Jane Potter; 30. David Jones (1895-1974) Thomas Dilworth; Part IV. Coda: Legacies of World War One Poetry Jane Potter.

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Jane Potter is Reader in Arts at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing, Oxford Brookes University. Her publications include Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War (2005), Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life (2014), and with Carol Acton, Working in a World of Hurt: Trauma and Resilience in the Narratives of Medical Personnel in War Zones (2015).

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