A Deep Cry

Soldier-poets Killed on the Western Front

Anne Powell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2014
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5668-0 (ISBN)

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The lives, deaths, poetry, diaries and extracts from letters of sixty-six soldier-poets are brought together in this limited edition of Anne Powell’s unique anthology; a fitting commemoration for the centenary of the First World War. These poems are not simply the works of well-known names such as Wilfred Owen – though they are represented – they have been painstakingly collected from a multitude of sources, and the relative obscurity of some of the voices makes the message all the more moving. Moreover, all but five of these soldiers lie within forty-five miles of Arras. Their deaths are described here in chronological order, with an account of each man’s last battle. This in itself provides a revealing gradual change in the poetry from early naïve patriotism to despair about the human race and the bitterness of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.

Anne Powell is the author of The Fierce Light, Shadows of War, and Women in the War Zone.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.10.2014
Zusatzinfo	10 Maps
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7509-5668-2 / 0750956682
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-5668-0 / 9780750956680
Zustand	Neuware