The New Oxford Book of War Poetry Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

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The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

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A new edition of Jon Stallworthy's acclaimed anthology marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Complete with a revised introduction and 42 new poems, the volume offers diverse account of war poetry from Homer's The Iliad to poems written about the wars of the twenty-first century.

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The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additional poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The New Oxford Book of War Poetry Reviews

This anthology is exemplary ... poetry is celebrated in its ability to explore the subject of war in all its ramifications. [It] is certainly the best of its kind. * Ian Gregson, History Today *
a very worthwhile collection * George Simmers, Great War Fiction *

About Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

Jon Stallworthy was a poet and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Oxford University. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, and the author of many distinguished works of poetry, criticism, and translation. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats's poetry, and prize-winning biographies of Louis MacNiece and Wilfred Owen (hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the finest biographies of our time'). He was an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry.

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GOR008990212

ISBN 13

9780198704478

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019870447X

Title

The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

Author

Jon Stallworthy (Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

Series

Oxford Books of Prose & Verse

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

2014-06-26

Number of pages

448

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