- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (27 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192804545
- ISBN-13: 978-0192804549
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #20 in Books > Fiction > Poetry & Drama > Poetry > Genres > War
- #45 in Books > Fiction > Poetry & Drama > Poetry > Anthologies
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"Reminds one of the large numbers and great variety of war poems from many centuries that are very good poems. Mr. Stallworthy's selections include most of the best, at least the best in English."--New York Times Book Review
"Excellently edited...this volume frames great evil and greater bravery."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This collection is of exceptionally high quality."--Washington Post Book World
"A beautiful memorial to a beastly business."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fine anthology."--ALA Booklist
"Excellently edited...this volume frames great evil and greater bravery."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This collection is of exceptionally high quality."--Washington Post Book World
"A beautiful memorial to a beastly business."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fine anthology."--ALA Booklist
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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems spanning centuries of human experience of war, from David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, the conflicts in Northern Ireland and El Salvador, and chilling visions of the `Next War' Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory `war-songs' to the more recent `anti-war' attitudes of poets responding to `man's inhumanity to man' - and to women and children.
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0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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What more can I say - we had to buy it because it is an A-level English text book! Therefore I can say with some certainty that some poems will be well-read and it will do its purpose! Will it be enjoyed? Have to ask my son when he has finished his exams!
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Great Selection of poems
5 May 2009
Format:Paperback
The book provides a great selection of poems, organized by date. The introduction is also very interesting, even if you don't have much knowledge about war poetry, the introduction gives you a lot of information about it.
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