Up the line to death: The war poets, 1914-1918 : an anthology - Softcover

Gardner, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0413455807 ISBN 13: 9780413455802

Publisher: Eyre Methuen, 1978

Synopsis

Since its publication in 1964, Brian Gardner’s Up the Line to Death has established itself as one of the most complete and compelling anthologies of poetry from World War I. Before his death on active service in 1918, Wilfred Owen said, “Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War and the pity of War.” This anthology is also concerned with the stark reality of war, but shows how poetry can be used to convey horror and fear, how a form associated with declarations of love can similarly leave a reader feeling disturbed and uncomfortable. 72 poets are represented, of whom 21 died in action. Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen, and Thomas Hardy are all here, as well as poets almost entirely forgotten now. From the early exultation to the bitter disillusion, the tragedy of World War I is carefully traced in the words of those who lived through it.

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About the Author

Brian Gardner is the author of The Terrible Rain: The War Poets, 1939-45.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eyre Methuen
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413455807
• ISBN 13: 9780413455802
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 188