Stallworthy, Jon

Survivors' songs : from Maldon to the Somme / Jon Stallworthy. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xiii, 226 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-212) and index.

Voice over. - 1. The death of the hero. 2. Survivors' songs. 3. England's epic? 4. Who was Rupert Brooke? 5. Christ and the soldier. 6. Owen's afterlife. 7. Owen and his editors. 8. The legacy of the Somme. 9. The iconography of the Waste Land. 10. War and peace. 11. The fire from heaven. 12. Henry Reed and the Great Good Place. 13. The fury and the mire. - Index.

9780521727891 (pbk.)


War poetry, English--History and criticism
War in literature
World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war
English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century

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