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The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
Santanu Das
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
hardcover. This Companion offers a major re-examination of the poetry of the First World War at the start of the war's centennial commemoration. Editor(s): Das, Santanu. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; DSC; HBWN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding ... Read more
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107018235
SKU
V9781107018235
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About Santanu Das
Santanu Das is Reader in English at King's College London, and was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, and St John's College, Cambridge. He is the author of Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the editor of Race, Empire and First World War Writing (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He has published in journals such ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War
'The Cambridge Companion includes essays on poetry by women, and from all parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as from British colonies, to illuminate the expanding frame of reference.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Each title I have reviewed in the Cambridge Companions series offers a well-written and up-to-date analysis of its focus and once again this Companion ... Read more