This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction provides historical context and biographical accounts of each poet.
This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction provides historical context and biographical accounts of each poet.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tim Kendall taught in Oxford, Newcastle and Bristol before taking up a professorship at the University of Exeter in 2006. He has been Head of Department, Director of Research, Director of Impact, and is now the Academic Director of Special Collections. His main research interests are war poetry, William Golding's fiction, nature writing, and archives.
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* Frances Cornford (1886 1960) * Edith Sitwell (1887 1964) * T. S. Eliot (1888 1965) * Ruth Pitter (1897 1992) * Noël Coward (1899 1973) * Stevie Smith (1902 1971) * C. Day Lewis (1904 1972) * Norman Cameron (1905 1953) * Margery Lea (1905 ?) * W. H. Auden (1907 1973) * Louis MacNeice (1907 1963) * E. J. Scovell (1907 1999) * Stephen Spender (1909 1995) * Robert Garioch (1909 1981) * Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill Eain] (1911 1996) * John Jarmain (1911 1944) * Anne Ridler (1912 2001) * F. T. Prince (1912 2003) * Henry Reed (1914 1986) * Dylan Thomas (1914 1953) * Alun Lewis (1915 1944) * Charles Causley (1917 2003) * Hamish Henderson (1919 2002) * Keith Douglas (1920 1944) * Edwin Morgan (1920 2010) * Drummond Allison (1921 1943) * Sidney Keyes (1922 1943) * Karen Gershon (1923 1993)