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The First World War in Irish Poetry

Book by Jim Haughey; Bucknell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

English Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Poetry--Irish Authors--History And Criticism, Ireland--In Literature, War Poetry, English--History And Criticism, World War, 1914-1918--Ireland--Literature And The War

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...like Ezra Pound, wrote war poems that express a sensibility...to accept contemporary history as a subject, and to...and someone who uses poetry for purposes more proper...Yeatss distaste for Owens poetry is that while Yeats was...Owens treatment of the war rather than the subject...
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Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars

Book by Michael Thurston; University of North Carolina Press, 2001

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American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, World War, 1914-1918--Influence, World War, 1939-1945--Causes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...disappearing under the huge historical impact of this war against fascism, sees the specific political...sentence is a pivotal one; last one or not, this war will recede into history just as the Spanish war has begun to. The weapons with which Rolfe and...
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Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War

Book by W. D. Ehrhart; Texas Tech University Press, 1989

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American Poetry--20th Century, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Poetry, War Poetry, American

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Indochina, and the war was a colonial war and a French prob- lem. Many of...decade would slowly drag by before the war in Southeast Asia would finally grind...most divisive epi- sode in U.S. history since the War Between the States. That attempt...
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Rule and Energy: Trends in British Poetry since the Second World War

Book by John Press; Oxford University Press, 1963

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English Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to distinguish there two dominant voices: the voice which argues, teaches, sets in order; and the voice which chants, affirms, prophesies. The dialogue between them has moulded and defined the history of poetry in England since the war.
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The Columbia History of British Poetry

Book by Carl Woodring, James Shapiro; Columbia University Press, 1994

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English Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...tendency to regard English poetry as behind the times...deaths of the best war poets Keith Douglas...resource that supplies poetry with a sense of the reality of history and the truths of tragedy...this context their poetry recovers some of its...

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Journal Articles on: war poetry history

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Women's Politics, Poetry, and the Feminist Historiography of the Great War

Journal article by Amy Bell; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 42, 2007

Subjects:

Feminism--Criticism and interpretation, Historiography--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, War--Portrayals, Wars--Portrayals, Women--Political aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...observing gaze on the Great War see Jean Gallagher, Worm Wars through the Female Gaze...4) The literature on poetry written by soldiers during the Great War is extensive. See Fred...The Price of Pity: Poetry, History and Myth in the Great...
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Giving Voice to the Crimean War: Tennyson's "Charge" and Maud's Battle-Song

Journal article by Stefanie Markovits; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009

Subjects:

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Portrayals, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron--Works, War poetry--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Maud but of the Crimean War--to write it down would...the poets of the Crimean War-and their most perfect...espouses having passed into history), Mauds ballad can also...protest poems of later wars. Notes This argument...Markovits, The Crimean War in the British Imagination...the Spasmodic school of poetry." (3) According to...
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"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" the Novelist as Poet: A Study in the Dramatic Poetry of Herman Melville

Journal article by Mustafa Jalal; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

Subjects:

Battle-Pieces (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Civil war--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Melville, Herman--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Pieces and Aspects of the War" The Novelist as Poet: A Study in the Dramatic Poetry of Herman Melville. by...nineteenth century American poetry, especially Civil War...as caused by the coming war. It sounds like a Melvillian...his wide knowledge of history and historical forces...
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Aileen Palmer-twentieth Century Pilgrim: War, Poetry, Madness and Modernism

Journal article by Sylvia Martin; Hecate, Vol. 35, 2009

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Hospitals, Parents & parenting, Poetry, Poets, Political activism, War, Women

Collections: Entire Library

...the future of poetry lies: in the...poets of World War Two had the...psychiatric history; exhilarating...voices of history, calling through...in both her poetry collections...with her own war experience...twentieth-century wars enabled women...inclusion of womens poetry in Spanish Civil War anthologies...
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Jose A. Saavedra Casco, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source

Journal article by Joseph Francis Edmund Payne; Africa, Vol. 79, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...SAAVEDRA CASCO, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German...development of Swahili poetry. Explanation of the...description of the genesis of poetry as an art form, its...relates to the social history of the East African...illuminating: while earlier poetry tended to be epic...depicting Islamic holy wars and stories from the...compared to Western histories in terms of the more...

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Magazine Articles on: war poetry history

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'Weep Wretched Man' - Civil War in Poetry

Magazine article by Kenneth Baker; History Today, Vol. 47, November 1997

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Civil war--Literature, War poetry--Analysis

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Wretched Man - civil war in poetry by Kenneth Baker...knowledge of the history of the Balkans...series of civil wars which reminded...evidence and the war trials tell again...Faber Book of War Poetry, published in...the Thirty Years War; France in 1870...suffered in two civil wars: for forty years...
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Poetry and the Pity of War

Magazine article by Randle Manwaring; Contemporary Review, Vol. 273, November 1998

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Poets--Works, War poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Poetry and the pity of war...1997 Reith Lecture and history would seem to answer...Michigan Military Academy War is hell. He might well...in the American Civil War and fought only with...covering the two world wars which engulfed almost...has been the subject of poetry since earliest times...
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Collateral Damage: The Civil War Only Enhanced George Whitman's Soldierly Satisfaction; for His Brother Walt, However, the Horrors Halted an Outpouring of Great Poetry

Magazine article by Robert Roper; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Winter 2009

Subjects:

Poets--Family, Poets--Social aspects, Poets--Works, Sibling relations--Evaluation, Soldiers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Soldiers--Records and correspondence, Soldiers--Social aspects, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Influence, Whitman, George--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Whitman, George--Records and correspondence, Whitman, George--Social aspects, Whitman, Walt--Family, Whitman, Walt--Social aspects, Whitman, Walt--Works

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...influential book of poetry of the last century...his gift being for war. Again and again...of promotions. At wars end, as a brevetted...still insisted that war was anomalous, doomed...when he consigned war to the premodern...exemplary course through history--these purposes...turned his pen to poetry. And for this reason...
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Among the First to Fall: Early First World War Poets Are Typically Overlooked in Favour of the Grim Realism Expressed during the Conflict's Final Moments. A New Exhibition on One of Them Redresses the Balance, Writes Simon Poe

Magazine article by Simon Poe; New Statesman, Vol. 134, June 27, 2005

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Poets--History, Poets--Works, War poetry--History, World War I, 1914-1918--Portrayals

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Fall: Early First World War Poets Are Typically Overlooked...old way of writing war poetry. Now, however, the...central myths of the Great War (probably the most mythologised event in modern history): that of the gilded...Homer, went gaily to war and were slaughtered almost...
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In the Wake of Robert Lowell: Can Today's Poets Seize the Moment as Their Great Predecessors Did during the First World War and the Fighting in Vietnam

Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 132, February 17, 2003

Subjects:

Vietnam War, 1959-1975--Portrayals, depictions, etc., War poetry--Appreciation, War poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War poetry--History, World War I, 1914-1918--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...well about the Spanish civil war; and Robert Lowells anti-Vietnam...stood before a crowd of anti-war demonstrators in Washington and...children when they fall/in small war on the heels of small/war...soon discover just how important poetry can still be to our nation at...

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Newspaper Articles on: war poetry history

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Children Spell out Their Views on War; SCHOOL POETRY EXERCISE GIVES TIMELY MESSAGE OF PEACE FROM YOUTH

Newspaper article by Hayley Cuthbertson; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), June 14, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Children Spell out Their Views on War; SCHOOL POETRY EXERCISE GIVES TIMELY MESSAGE...YOUTH. by Hayley Cuthbertson WAR IS A SIN - that was the simple...The children had studied the history of World War Two and the conflict in Kosovo...
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Civil War Poetry, and an American Modernist

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 8, 2005

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Roethke, Theodore

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Civil War Poetry, and an American Modernist...all of Americas other wars combined." Those who...Burns version of the war on PBS easily recall...chapters in our nations history, a time whose effects...development of American poetry. Mr. McClatchy, the...of the newer literary histories of American poetry do...
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Finding Poetry in the Mud of Flanders; Waste of Lives: Over the Top by World War I Artist John Nash, Brother of Paul

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 7, 2008

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Artists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Over the Top by World War I Artist John Nash...war that made men write poetry. They are all here...soldiers were moved to write poetry too, and good poetry, often inmemory of a...a daythan any army in history, the British High Command...
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Poems Spring from Snapshots of Youth; IN Her Poetry Collection Background Music, Cynthia Fuller Harmoniously Orchestrates Personal Histories, Relationships and Landscapes, as TAMZIN LEWIS Writes

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 7, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Snapshots of Youth; IN Her Poetry Collection Background...Orchestrates Personal Histories, Relationships and...latest collection of poetry. Its quite a harmless...Music, Cynthias fifth poetry book, has a deep sense of history and story, in continuation...during the First World War. Cynthia, who has...
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Poetry and Photographs Capture Gower 'Too Beautiful Perhaps for Its Own Good' A Bloody History, a Brighter Future

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 13, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Poetry and Photographs Capture...Its Own Good A Bloody History, a Brighter Future...capture the beauty and history of the Gower peninsula...Until the Second World War the peninsula was an...commentary on Gower with poetry inspired by the famous...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: war poetry history

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South, The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...California. Since World War II, the South has become...subject has been the Civil War, reflected in song and poetry from Paul Hamilton Hayne...to Margaret Mitchell. History Seventeenth Century to the Civil War The basic agricultural...
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Cammaerts, Émile

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...professor at the Univ. of London in 1933. His poetry of World War I, which appeared in French, was translated...poignant character sketch of a son killed in the war, and volumes on Belgian history and culture...
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Bulgarian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...who in 1762 began his history of the Slav Bulgarians...writing plays, novels, poetry, and short stories...losses in the Balkan Wars and World War I gave rise to a poetry whose chief quality...Ivajlo Petrov and the poetry of Pavel Matev, Lubomir...
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Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and statesman. Included among his works are a history (4 vol., 1921 22) of World War I; biographies of Julius Caesar (1932), Scott...Cromwell (1934); short stories, essays, and poetry; and adventure novels, including The Thirty...
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Frederick II , King of Prussia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...interest in government and war. At the age of 18 Frederick...him in the Seven Years War. The establishment...Empire and instigated the War of the Bavarian Succession...wrote inconsequential poetry and remarkable prose on politics, history, military science...

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