Anne Powell

A Deep Cry (eBook, ePUB)

Soldier-poets Killed on the Western Front

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arranged by dates of death, this anthology gives the short life-and-death stories of 66 British poets killed in northern France and Belgium, including an account of the battle in which each died, with extracts from their poems, letters and diaries. The chronology begins with Robert Sterling, killed in April 1915; it ends with Wilfred Owen's death a week before the Armistice in 1918, the early optimism and fervour now replaced by cynicism and awful reality. From the trenches, behind the lines, in hospitals and on leave, these soldier-poets wrote of the "carnage incomparable", the suffering and grim conditions they experienced, and of the solace they found in comradeship and the continuing cycle of nature amid the horrors of war. Although some names are well known - Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley and Edward Thomas - others are less so, but the intimate personal accounts in their letters home, and in diaries and poems, afford us a glimpse into the intense emotional experiernce of the combatant at war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752480367
• Artikelnr.: 41763463