Survivors' Songs: From Maldon to the Somme - Softcover

Stallworthy, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521727898 ISBN 13: 9780521727891

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

From Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the wider context of writing about warfare from prehistoric Troy to Anglo-Saxon England; from Agincourt to Flanders; from El Alamein to Vietnam; from the wars of yesterday to the wars of tomorrow.

About this title

Book Description:

For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been writing about the literary and autobiographical voices of those caught up in war. In these linked essays, he sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the context of writing about warfare from Troy to Vietnam.

About the Author:

Jon Stallworthy is Acting President of Wolfson College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521727898
• ISBN 13: 9780521727891
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240