An illustrated study guide to poetry written by men and women in all parts of the British Isles during the First World War, 1914-18. This rich and valuable ebook has numerous fascinating hyperlinks to online resources. It discusses significant individual poems by the writers named, exploring them within their social, political and aesthetic frames and summarising important earlier critical readings and responses. It is copiously illustrated and covers Thomas Hardy, Popular Poetry, Anthologies, War Poetry by Women, the work of Graves, Blunden and Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, David Jones, Irish poetry, Scottish poetry, War Poetry and Modernism.Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has written extensively on the literature and visual art of the twentieth century: his books include Art and Survival in First World War Britain (Macmillan, 1987), British Romantic Art and the First World War (Macmillan, 1991) and Structure and Dissolution in English Writing, 1910-1920 (Macmillan, 1999). He has been a visiting professor in Texas, Washington, Zagreb and New Delhi. His most recent book is Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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