The red sweet wine of youth : British poets of the First World War / Nicholas Murray.

Author/creator Murray, Nicholas
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Little, Brown, 2010.
Description343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Poets, English--20th century. --Biography.
Soldiers--Great Britain. --Biography.
War poetry, English--20th century. --History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
Soldiers' writings, English--History and criticism.

Contents 1. The West End front -- 2. The first phase, 1914 to the Somme: Rupert Brooke, Julian Grenfell and Charles Hamilton Sorley -- 3. The Somme and after: Siegfried Sassoon and the poetry of protest -- 4. The poetry and the pity: Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves -- 5. Transcripts of the battlefields: Isaac Rosenberg -- 6. The English line: Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas and Edmund Blunden -- 7. Two modernists: David Jones and T. E. Hulme -- 8. Other boices.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [320]-328) and index.
ISBN9781408700044 (hbk)
ISBN1408700042 (hbk)

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Joyner General Stacks PR605.W65 M87 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold