Writ in Barracks Victorian Soldier Poems of British Army Life, Boer War Campaigns, Barrack-Room Humour, and Imperial Military Ballads
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
68
Maße (L/B/H)
0,4/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
114 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-9814-3
Writ in Barracks is Edgar Wallace's vigorous early collection of soldierly verse, shaped by the idiom, rhythms, and rough humour of late-Victorian military life. Written in the shadow of Rudyard Kipling's barrack-room ballads, the poems speak in the voices of ordinary servicemen rather than distant imperial strategists. Their direct diction, marching cadences, comic turns, and flashes of pathos place the book within a popular tradition of imperial verse while preserving the immediacy of lived experience in camp, barracks, and campaign. Wallace himself was not merely imagining this world from afar. Born in 1875, he served as a young man in the British Army and later became a correspondent during the South African War, experiences that sharpened his ear for soldiers' speech and his understanding of military routine. Before achieving fame as a prolific novelist, playwright, and creator of thrillers, he used poetry to transform hardship, comradeship, boredom, and patriotic feeling into accessible literary form. This book is recommended for readers interested in military literature, Victorian popular poetry, and the beginnings of Wallace's remarkable career. It offers both historical atmosphere and the energetic storytelling instinct that would later define his fiction.
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