Fields of Agony : British Poetry of the First World War.
by
 
Sillars, Stuart.

Title
Fields of Agony : British Poetry of the First World War.

Author
Sillars, Stuart.

ISBN
9781847600271

Personal Author
Sillars, Stuart.

Physical Description
1 online resource (90 pages)

Series
Humanities Insights

Contents
Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 'What did they expect?': The nature of war poetry -- 1.1 The Invention of War Poetry -- 1.2 The Place of Poetry in 1914 -- 1.3 Issues of Gender -- 1.4 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): 'Men who March Away' -- 1.5 Conclusion -- 1.6 A Note on Texts -- 'To battle for the truth': Popular Poetry -- 2.1 Defining 'Popular' -- 2.2 Responses to war in popular art forms -- 2.3 Ideal, Order and Consolation -- 2.4 Structure, idea and ideology in popular poetry -- 2.5 Anthologies -- 2.6 Other voices -- 'Nobody asked what the women thought': Poetry by Women -- 3.1 Approaching War Poetry by Women -- 3.2 The Variety of Poetry by Women -- 'Young blood and high blood': Canonical writers -- 4.1 Displaced nature: Graves, Blunden and Gurney -- 4.2 Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- 4.3 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- 4.4 Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- 4.5 Other cultures, other nations -- 4.5.2 David Jones (1895-1974) -- 4.5.3 Irish poetry -- 4.5.4. Scottish poetry -- Placing War Poetry -- 5.1 War poetry and Modernism -- 5.2 Last thoughts -- Insights.

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Poetry.
 
World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry.

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Moseley, Charles.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book1309492-1001PR610 -- .S55 2007 EBEbrary E-Books