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First published in 1928, This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets is a gripping collection of narrative verse that represents the beginning and end of the promising literary career of John Allan Wyeth, a Princeton-educated French interpreter in the American Expeditionary Force's Thirty-third Division. Though it received strong reviews and enough sales to warrant a trade edition in 1929, the volume faced the insurmountable adversary of the Great Depression, and its author soon vanished from the literary scene. This new edition of This Man's Army restores to print a lost vantage point on the American experience in the Great War as valuable for its high literary merits as for its historical accuracy. The new introduction by Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, chronicles the life of the elusive author and maps the book's critical reception and place in World War I poetry, while new annotations by military historian B. J. Omanson establish the historical context of individual poems.
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"Let the trumpets sound for John Allan Wyeth! At overlong last, marking the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, an American poet takes his place with the British in the front rank of the war poets' parade."--Jon Stallworthy, editor of The Oxford Book of War Poetry
"A group of sonnets, strung with slang and soldiers' patois, telling of the poet's experiences in the war. They are scrupulously exact description with little comment, and they ring with a vivid reality."--Poetry
"Wyeth has been able to capture the elusive something which differentiates the poetic observation from the commonplace one."--Boston Globe
About the Author
America's leading contemporary men of letters, Dana Gioia is an internationally renowned poet and critic. His most recent volume of poetry, Interrogations at Noon, won the American Book Award.
B. J. Omanson is a military historian and poet who works as a historical interpreter at Pricketts Fort in Fairmont, West Virginia.
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- PublisherUniv of South Carolina Pr
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1570037795
- ISBN 13 9781570037795
- BindingPaperback
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