The War Poets: Step-by-step guidance through the work of key poets
For English Literature studies and lovers of poetry
Information Points
- Authoritative - written by a very experienced internationally recognised authority
- A growing market of IB students and undergraduate students and students taking college or university-based English first year degree courses
- Ideal for students studying the war Poets for the first time
- Worldwide market- Studymates are in demand all over the world
- A must have book for all students studying this area.
In Focus- A Studymates Series
Who else wants to be able analyse the War Poets?
There is a profound sense of discovery for each generation who comes to read the work of the War Poets. The reader has to comprehend the sheer enormity and loss of life in a theatre of war that was at once hellish and yet paradoxically a cause of massive social change. In this Studymate the reader is shown how to consider the writing of war and conflict in general and then to understand the historical context. The author then explains the cathartic response of transmuting pain into art or literature. This book includes details on:
- The poetry of War
- Witness and Response
- How to read a war poem
- Language and style
- Wilfred Owen
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Edward Thomas and Isaac Rosenberg
- Writing about other Poets and the Home Front
- Poetry, history and Ideology
This book is ideal for:
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All students of literature/media in colleges and universities
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College and university central and department libraries
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Teachers, tutors and lecturers
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Public and reference libraries
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General readers
Its concept is clearly the one of a tutorial geared towards coursework and essay writing in an exam context.
Much to the credit of its author, some striking focuses offered are on the shifting literary tradition brought about by the overwhelming effect of the war. Another feature is the gap between reflecting on a war imagined (the early poets or the home front) and the one experienced (the trench poets).
Within the limit of 100-odd pages, two landmark names (Owen and Sassoon) and two lesser gods (Thomas and Rosenberg) are dealt with. For easy reference, the book comes with a glossary, a secondary bibliography and a selection of websites.
... The book surely will convince anyone that Great War poetry has not lost any of the ground-breaking significance it had at the time.
