TY - BOOK ID - 80824514 TI - Survivors' songs PY - 2008 SN - 9780511755118 9780521899062 9780521727891 051145645X 9780511457760 0511457766 9780511456459 0521727898 0521899060 1107202310 1281945080 9786611945084 0511454783 0511453744 0511755112 051145581X PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - War poetry, English KW - War in literature. KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature and the war. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80824514 AB - 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. ER -