Book Description
Thirty-seven chapters, written by leading
literary critics from across the world, describe the latest thinking
about twentieth-century war poetry. The book maps both the uniqueness
of each war and the continuities between poets of different wars, while
the interconnections between the literatures of war and peacetime, and
between combatant and civilian poets, are fully considered. The focus
is on Britain and Ireland, but links are drawn with the poetry of the
United States and
continental Europe. The
Oxford Handbook feeds a growing interest in war poetry and offers, in
toto, a definitive survey of the terrain. It is intended for a broad
audience, made up of specialists and also graduates and undergraduates,
and is an essential resource for both scholars of particular poets and
for those interested in wider debates about modern poetry. This
scholarly and readable assessment of the field will provide an
important point of reference for decades to come.