The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 1/30/2014
EAN 9781107692954, ISBN10: 1107692954
Paperback, 346 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English at the start of the centennial commemoration of the war. It offers historical and critical contexts, fresh readings of the important soldier-poets, and investigations of the war poetry of women and civilians, Georgians and Anglo-American modernists and of poetry from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the former British colonies. The volume explores the range and diversity of this body of work, its rich afterlife and the expanding horizons and reconfiguration of the term 'First World War Poetry'. Complete with a detailed chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion concludes with a conversation with three poets - Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy - about why and how the war and its poetry continue to resonate with us.
Part I. Historical and Critical Contexts
Reconfiguring First World War poetry
an introduction Santanu Das
1. First World War poetry
a cultural landscape Vincent Sherry
2. Poetic form and the First World War Peter Howarth
Part II. 'Soldier-Poets'
3. Early poets of the First World War Elizabeth Vandiver
4. Later poets of the First World War Mark Rawlinson
5. Siegfried Sassoon Sarah Cole
6. Isaac Rosenberg Neil Corcoran
7. Wilfred Owen Sandra Gilbert
8. Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney Edna Longley
9. David Jones Adrian Poole
Part III. Archipelagic, Commonwealth and Civilian Poetry
10. Archipelagic poetry of the First World War David Goldie
11. Colonial poetry of the First World War Simon Featherstone
12. Women's poetry of the First World War Margaret Higonnet
13. Civilian war poetry
Hardy and Kipling Tim Kendall
14. First World War and modernist poetry
Pound and Eliot Christine Froula
Part IV. Afterlives of First World War Poetry
15. 'But that is not new'
poetic legacies of the First World War Jay Winter
16. A conversation
Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy Santanu Das
Guide to further reading
Index.