The New Oxford Book of War Poetry (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019870447X ISBN 13: 9780198704478

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton, among others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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About the Author

Jon Stallworthy is a poet and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many distinguished works of poetry, criticism, and translation. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats's poetry, and prize-winning biographies of Louis MacNiece and Wilfred Owen, which was hailed by Graham Greene as "one of the finest biographies of our time." He is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019870447X
• ISBN 13: 9780198704478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Stallworthy Jon