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This anthology of nearly 200 poems chronicles the many voices of peace and war from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Bible, to the dropping of the atomic bomb, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, the uneasiness of the present and the uncertainty of the future. It includes works from China, Russia, Korea, Hungary, Australia, Poland, Zululand, America and England, from poets ranging from Aeschylus, Milton, Blake, Shakespeare, Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Walt Whitman and Siegfried Sassoon to Laurie Lee, Dannie Abse, Carl Sandberg, Charles Causley and Ted Hughes.
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Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark have collaborated on several books for Oxford, including the new Oxford Book of Story Poems.
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Peace and War. A Collection of Poems
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Condition: Very Good. Marks, Alan (illustrator). First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with lettering to spine silver. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octav. pp. 208, illustrated. A comprehensive anthology of nearly two hundred poems chronocling all the many voices of peace and war from many lands and many cultures. With poets ranging from Aeschylus, Milton, Blake and Shakespeare, through Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, Walt Whitman, Siegfried Sassoon, to Laurie Lee, Dannie Abse, Carl Sandburg, Charles Causley and Ted Hughes. Illustrated by Alan Marks. A book in Very Good condition with bumping to head of spine, in a Very Good dust-jacket with some top edge creasing, but which is not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # 102392
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