Heroes' Twilight: A Study of the Literature of the Great War - Softcover

Bergonzi, Bernard

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9781857541359: Heroes' Twilight: A Study of the Literature of the Great War

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ISBN 10: 1857541359 ISBN 13: 9781857541359

Publisher: Carcanet Pr, 2010

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When Heroes' Twilight was originally published in 1965, it offered radical perspectives on the poetry, fiction and autobiographical writing of the First World War, mapping an area of literature which remains raw and challenging.
This revised and enlarged edition restores the book as an irreplaceable study of the work of those who fought: victims, like the poets Charles Sorley, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg; and survivors, who returned to their experiences in prose works long after it had ended, like Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. An account of responses to the war by civilian writers, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and D. H. Lawrence among them, is included, and a final chapter discusses poems and novels about the war by writers born long after it was over.

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Bernard Bergonzi lectured at Manchester and at Warwick, where he was Professor of English (1971-92).

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