Isaac Rosenberg: Poet and Painter

Wilson, Jean Moorcroft

ISBN 10: 0900821213 / ISBN 13: 9780900821219

Published by Cecil Woolf, 1975

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0900821213. Seller Inventory # 9496977

Synopsis:

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.

Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged only twenty-seven, his tragic early death resembling that of many other well-known poets of that conflict. But he differed from the majority of Great War poets in almost every other respect - race, class, education, upbringing, experience and technique. He was a skilled painter as well as a brilliant poet. The son of impoverished immigrant Russian Jews, he served as a private in the army and his perspective on the trenches is quite different from the other mainly officer-poets.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson focuses on the relationship between Rosenberg's life and work - his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London; his time at the Slade School of Art and friendship with David Bomberg, Mark Gertler and Stanley Spencer; and his harrowing life as a private in the British Army.

Review: a compelling portrait of a poet who never lost his illusions about the war because he never had any in the first place (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

Bibliographic Details

Title: Isaac Rosenberg: Poet and Painter
Publisher: Cecil Woolf
Publication Date: 1975
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good