International poetry of the first world war: An anthology of lost voices/ [electronic resource]
edited by Constance Ruzich.
- London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- e-book containing 387 pages
Front matter Introduction 1–16 1. Soldiers’ Lives 17–94 2. Minds at War 95–156 3. Noncombatants 157–226 4. Making Sense of War 227–280 5. Remembering the Dead 281–338 6. Aftermath 339–377 Back matter Primary Sources 378–384 Further Reading 385–387
Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this new anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together poems by soldiers and non-combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict across the world, International Poetry of the First World War reveals the crucial public role that poetry played in shaping responses to and the legacies of the conflict.
Life on the Front
Psychological trauma
Noncombatants and the Home Front
Rationalising the War
Remembering the dead
Peace and the aftermath of the War
With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia.
9781350106475 GBP305
10.5040/9781350106475 DOI:
Comparative Literature - First World War Literary Studies Poetry and Poetics Twentieth-Century Literature