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The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry

✍ Scribed by Tim Kendall

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
771
Category
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✦ Synopsis

The Handbook ranges widely and in depth across 20th-century war poetry, incorporating detailed discussions of some of the key poets of the period. It is an essential resource for scholars of particular poets and for those interested in wider debates. Contributors include some of the most important international poetry critics of our time.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: BEGINNINGS
1. Fighting Talk: Victorian War Poetry
2. ‘Graver things... braver things’: Hardy’s War Poetry
3. From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling’s War Poetry
PART II: THE GREAT WAR
4. War Poetry and the Realm of the Senses: Owen and Rosenberg
5. ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’: The Women Poets of the First World War
6. Wilfred Owen
7. Shakespeare and the Great War
8. Was there a Scottish War Literature? Scotland, Poetry, and the First World War
9. War Poetry, or the Poetry of War? Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney
10. The Great War and Modernist Poetry
11. A War of Friendship: Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon
12. ‘Easter, 1916’: Yeats’s First World War Poem
PART III: ENTRE DEUX GUERRES
13. ‘What the dawn will bring to light’: Credulity and Commitment in the Ideological Construction of ‘Spain’
14. Unwriting the Good Fight: W. H. Auden’s ‘Spain 1937’
15. War, Politics, and Disappearing Poetry: Auden, Yeats, Empson
PART IV: THE SECOND WORLD WAR
16. ‘Others have come before you’: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Second World War Poets
17. ‘Death’s Proletariat’: Scottish Poets of the Second World War
18. Occupying New Territory: Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh-Language Poetry of the Second World War
19. The Muse that Failed: Poetry and Patriotism during the Second World War
20. Louis MacNeice’s War
21. Sidney Keyes in Historical Perspective
PART V: CONTINUITIES IN MODERN WAR POETRY
22. Anthologizing War
23. Women’s Poetry of the First and Second World Wars
24. War Pastorals
25. The Poetry of Pain
26. ‘Down in the terraces between the targets’: Civilians
27. The War Remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes
28. ‘For Isaac Rosenberg’: Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal Ó Searcaigh
29. The Fury and the Mire
PART VI: ‘POST-WAR’ POETRY
30. ‘This is plenty. This is more than enough’: Poetry and the Memory of the Second World War
31. British Holocaust Poetry: Songs of Experience
32. Quiet Americans: Responses to War in Some British and American Poetry of the 1960s
33. Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry
34. ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’: Contemporary War and the Non-combatant Poet
PART VII: NORTHERN IRELAND
35. ‘That dark permanence of ancient forms’: Negotiating with the Epic in Northern Irish Poetry of the Troubles
36. ‘Stalled in the Pre-articulate’: Heaney, Poetry, and War
37. Unavowed Engagement: Paul Muldoon as War Poet
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