Poetry Out of My Head and Heart

Isaac Rosenberg; Ed. Jean Liddiard

ISBN 10: 1904634389 / ISBN 13: 9781904634386

Published by Enitharmon, 2007

About this Item

Now acknowledged as some of the greatest poetry to come out of the First World War, much of Isaac Rosenberg?s work was only published after his death near Arras in April 1918. These letters to his mentor Laurence Binyon, discovered among the latter?s papers in 1995, include the powerful verses ?Break of Day in the Trenches? and ?Dead Man?s Dump?.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetry Out of My Head and Heart
• Publisher: Enitharmon
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904634389
• ISBN 13: 9781904634386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

An astonishing discovery was made in 1995 during the British Library's removal from the British Museum. Thirty-four letters and eighteen draft poems, including ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’, ‘Dead Man's Dump’ and ‘Returning, We Hear the Larks’ by the major First World War poet Isaac Rosenberg, were found in a bundle of papers stored by former museum keeper Laurence Binyon, himself a poet and Rosenberg's mentor. The newly discovered papers include all Rosenberg's complete letters and draft poems to Binyon and the poet Gordon Bottomley, together with material about Rosenberg from family, friends and mentors such as his sister Annie, Whitechapel librarian Morley Dainow, schoolteacher Winifreda Seaton, and patron Frank Emanuel. All are published here, most for the first time.

About the Author

Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol in 1890 to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania. His family moved to the East End of London in 1897, and after a rudimentary education Rosenberg at 14 was apprenticed to an engraver. Wealthy patrons enabled him to study at the Slade School of Art (1911-14) at the same time as Stanley Spencer and Mark Gertler, and for nine months in 1914-15 he lived in South Africa. The only poems to be collected in his lifetime were self-published in a pamphlet form – Night and Day (1912), Youth (1915) and Moses (1916). Enlisting in the Army in October 1915 he served on the Western Front until his death on night patrol on 1 April 1918.