Out of Battle: Poetry of the Great War - Hardcover

Silkin, Jon

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9780192118042: Out of Battle: Poetry of the Great War

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ISBN 10: 0192118048 ISBN 13: 9780192118042

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1972

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This guide to the Great War poets and their work explores the variety of responses from Rupert Brook, Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas to the events they witnessed. Other poets discussed are Hardy, Kipling, Charles Sorely, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington and David Jones.

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Review:

'..through Silkin's subtle and informing consideration the poets take on a new individuality and stature.' - The Daily Telegraph
'a most impressive book.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
'How simulative of ever-fresh speculation is Jon Silkin's logically developed exploration, sometimes impassioned and often exciting.' - The Times
'Should find a permanent place in the literature dealing with the Great War.' - New Statesman

About the Author:

JON SILKIN is a Fellow of Poetry at the University of Leeds. He was born in London in 1930, and to date he has published ten collections of poetry. The most recent book is The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry. He has also edited with Jon Glover, The Penguin Book of First World War Prose.

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