Review
'..through Silkin's subtle and informing consideration the poets take on a new individuality and stature.' - The Daily Telegraph'a most impressive book.' - Times Higher Education Supplement'How simulative of ever-fresh speculation is Jon Silkin's logically developed exploration, sometimes impassioned and often exciting.' - The Times'Should find a permanent place in the literature dealing with the Great War.' - New Statesman
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Product Description
This guide to the Great War poets and their work explores the variety of responses from Rupert Brook, Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas to the events they witnessed. Other poets discussed are Hardy, Kipling, Charles Sorely, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington and David Jones.