The Oxford Book of War Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192804545 ISBN 13: 9780192804549

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, the conflicts in Northern Ireland and El Salvador, and chilling visions of the "Next War." Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory "war songs" to the more recent "anti-war" attitudes of poets responding to "man's inhumanity to man."

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Stallworthy is Professor of English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of 8 collections of poetry; works of criticism, and biographer of Wilfred Owen. He was an editor at OUP from 1959 to 1977.

Review:

"Reminds one of the large numbers and great variety of war poems from many centuries that are very good poems. Mr. Stallworthy's selections include most of the best, at least the best in English."--New York Times Book Review

"Excellently edited...this volume frames great evil and greater bravery."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This collection is of exceptionally high quality."--Washington Post Book World

"A beautiful memorial to a beastly business."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A fine anthology."--ALA Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0192804545
• ISBN 13: 9780192804549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Stallworthy Jon