Perspectives on World War I Poetry

✍ Scribed by Robert C. Evans

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914–18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-Ttle
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Also Available from Bloomsbury
Introduction
The Abrams scheme
Literary theories: A brief overview
Applying the theories: Carl Sandburg’s “Grass”
1
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928): “Channel firing”; “In time of ‘the breaking of nations’”
A. E. Housman (1859–1936): A Shropshire Lad XXXV—“On the idle hill of summer”
2
Alys Fane Trotter (1863–1961): “The hospital visitor”
Eva Dobell (1867–1973): “In a soldier’s hospital I: Pluck”; “In a soldier’s hospital II: Gramophone tunes”
3
Charlotte Mew (1869–1928): “May, 1915”
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938): “To America”
John McCrae (1872–1918): “In Flanders fields”
4
Edward Thomas (1878–1917): “Tears”; “Rain”
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965): “Now that you too must shortly go the way”
5
Margaret Sackville (1881–1963): “A memory”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933): “There will come soft rains”
6
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967): “They”; “The rear-guard”; “The glory of women”; “Atrocities”
7
Rupert Brooke (1887–1915): “Nineteen fourteen: The soldier”; “Nineteen fourteen: The dead”
Teresa Hooley (1888–1973): “A war film”
Claude McKay (1889–1948): “The little peoples”
8
Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918): “Break of day in the trenches”; “Louse hunting”; “Returning, we hear the larks”
Leon Gellert (1892–1977): “A night attack”; “Anzac Cove”
9
Marian Allen (1892–1953): “The wind on the downs”
Vera Brittain (1893–1970): “To my brother (In memory of July 1st, 1916)”
Margaret Postgate Cole (1893–1980): “The veteran”
10
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918): “Anthem for doomed youth”; “Arms and the boy”; “Disabled”; “Dulce et Decorum Est”; “Futility”; “Stran
11
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962): “I sing of Olaf”; “My sweet old etcetera”
David Jones (1895–1974): In Parenthesis (excerpt from Section VII)
12 The kinds of questions different critics ask
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Longinus
Traditional historical criticism
Thematic criticism
Formalism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Archetypal criticism
Marxist criticism
Feminist criticism
Structuralist criticism
Deconstructionism
Reader-response criticism
Dialogical criticism
New historicism
Multiculturalism
Postmodernism
Ecocriticism
Darwinian criticism
Works Cited
Further Reading
Permissins
Index of Theories and Applications