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The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry

Edited by Tim Kendall

Price: £93.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928266-1
Publication date: 22 February 2007
800 pages, 246x171 mm

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Reviews

'...Kendall has assembled a wide range of fresh and important critical persepctives of a remarkably high quality.' - Tom Walker The Cambridge Quarterly
'Kendall has assembled a wide range of fresh and important critical perspectives of a remarkably high quality.' - Tom Walker, Cambridge Quarterly
'rich and wide ranging... a thorough, inclusive and invaluable guide to the field, combining accessible and informative overviews with original and insightful research.' - Jo Gill, Modern Language Review
'If a definitive edition of Great War poetry criticism were possible, then this would be it... a vast scholarly effort...a large and rich achievement, with an infectious quality of 'browsability'... it addresses an academic need ambitiously and comprehensively.' - James Bridges, Ivor Gurney Society Journal
'...the real quality of most of the essays. Again and again they are illuminating, thoughtful, and challenging. The array of contributors that Kendall has assembled is stellar, and the result a fine collection, one that will reward turning to again and again.' - Janis P. Stout, Review of English Studies
'...for the non-specialist, this Handbook acts as a master-class in the reading and understanding of the works considered, whether familiar or not. For the specialists, it promises a never-ending source for debate... For once I have to agree with the publisher's claim that this Handbook 'is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and forthose interested in wider debates about modern poetry.' I should add that it provides much of value to the non-academic also.' - David Page, Kipling Journal

Description

An indispensable reference for the study of both war poetry and modern poetry more generally
Covers a large number of the twentieth century's most important poets, from Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling to Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon
Provides a panoramic view of the twentieth century, enabling readers to appreciate continuities and discontinuities between poets of different wars

Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the United States and continental Europe.

The Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in toto , a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates, and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an important point of reference for decades to come.

Readership: Scholars and students of twentieth-century poetry

Contents

Introduction , Tim Kendall

Beginnings

1. Fighting Talk: Victorian War Poetry , Matthew Bevis

2. Graver Things, Braver Things: Hardy's Martial Zest , Ralph Pite

3. From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling's War Poetry , Daniel Karlin

The Great War

4. First World War Poetry and the Realm of the Senses , Santanu Das

5. Many Sisters to Many Brothers: Woman Poets of the Great War , Stacy Gillis

6. Wilfred Owen , Mark Rawlinson

7. Shakespeare and the Great War , John Lee

8. Was there a Scottish War Literature? Scotland, Poetry, and the First World War , David Goldie

9. War Poetry, or the Poetry of War? Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney , Vivien Noakes

10. The Great War and Modernist Poetry in England , Vincent Sherry

11. A War of Friendship: Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon , Fran Brearton

12. 'Easter, 1916': Yeats's World War I Poem , Marjorie Perloff

Entre Deux Guerres

13. 'What the dawn will bring to light': Credulity and Commitment in the Ideological Construction of 'Spain' , Stan Smith

14. Unwriting the Good Fight: Auden's 'Spain' and its Contexts , Rainer Emig

15. War, Politics and Disappearing Poetry: Auden, Yeats, Empson , John Lyon

The Second World War

16. 'Others have come before you': the Influence of the Great War on Second World War Poets , Dawn Bellamy

17. Death's Proletariat: Scottish Poets of the Second World War , Roderick Watson

18. New Territory: Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh Poetry of the Second World War , Gerwyn Wiliams

19. The Muse that Failed: Poetry and Patriotism during the Second World War , Helen Goethals

20. 'Since Munich, What?': Louis MacNeice's Poetry of the Second World War , Peter McDonald

21. Sidney Keyes in Historical Perspective , Geoffrey Hill

Continuities in Modern War Poetry

22. Anthologizing War , Hugh Haughton

23. Mina Loy and E. J. Scovell: Defining Women's War Poetry , Simon Featherstone

24. War Pastorals, 1914-2004 , Edna Longley

25. The Poetry of Pain , Sarah Cole

26. 'Down in the terraces between the targets': Civilians , Peter Robinson

27. Complicate Me When I'm Dead: The War Remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes , Cornelia D. J. Pearsall

28. 'For Isaac Rosenberg': Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal O'Searcaigh , Tara Christie

29. The Fury and the Mire , Jon Stallworthy

'Post-war' poetry

30. 'This is plenty. This is more than enough': Poetry and the Memory of the Second World War , Gareth Reeves

31. British Holocaust Poetry: Songs of Experience , Claire M. Tylee

32. Quiet Americans: Responses to War in some British and American Poets of the 1960s , Alan Marshall

33. Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry , Adam Piette

34. Dichtung und Wahrheit: Contemporary War and the Non-Combatant Poet , David Wheatley

Northern Ireland

35. Constructing and Deconstructing the Epic - Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry , Paul Volsik

36. 'Stalled in the Pre-Articulate': Heaney, Poetry, and War , Brendan Corcoran

37. Unavowed Engagement: Paul Muldoon as War Poet , April Warman

Notes on Contributors

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Tim Kendall, Professor of English, University of Exeter

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -
Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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