Poetry of the First World War

DescriptionAt the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the ...

Reducere. A collection of poetry from the First World War, published in association with Imperial War Museums to mark the centenary of the start of the World...

Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the te...

Reducere. This volume publishes all Sassoon's war poems - including those he wrote before seeing action. As a body of work, Sassoon's poetry represents the a...

Reducere. The poetry of America's first published black poet was published before the Revolutionary War and recognized throughout the English-speaking world....

Reducere. Sea GardenByH. D.Hilda "H.D." Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her assoc...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

DescriptionH.D's writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collect...

* A collection of poetry and essays on war by one of the most prominent women writers from that period, author of the famous TESTAMENT OF YOUTH. A ...

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centen...

DescriptionIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self-published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled p...

The First World War produced a unique outpouring of prose and poetry depicting the stark realism of a brutal and futile war; no war before or since...

DescriptionA Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation Shortlisted for The 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection Wanderi...

DescriptionEdward Thomas (1878 - 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems ...

Auden, Lewis, MacNeice and other key poets of the 'Thirties' were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism and by the cl...

Reducere. First published in 1918, "A Spring Harvest" is the posthumous collection of poetry by Geoffrey Bache Smith, a close high school and college friend ...

"Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches" is a 1920 collection of poetry by English poet and soldier Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893-1918). A ...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved c...

Maria Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers. This first full English translation of her poetry includes thre...

Reducere. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which ...

DescriptionWilfred Owen was the greatest poet of the First World War, and his death in battle, a few days before Armistice, was a disastrous loss t...

Reducere. Sansei Amy Uyematsu's The Yellow Door celebrates her Japanese-American roots and the profound changes that have occurred in her lifetime. As a woma...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

Reducere. An eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan womenBecause my love's American, blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, parti...

'Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat - full of passion and poetry' - Max Arthur, Independent 'Magical evocation of the lonely bat...

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from h...

When Edward Thomas died in the First World War, very few of his poems had been published, but he was recognised as one of the finest and most influ...

Reducere. Osip Mandelstam's is one of the dozen luminous names in Russian poetry. Mandelstam (1891-1938) began as one of the more original poets of the Russi...

Reducere. A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, where boyhood is consumed by street soccer and sib...

Reducere. Sleepers Awake, first published in 1946, is one of Kenneth Patchen's major prose books. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention, it might be ...

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Wes...

Reducere. When the first glass was emptied, Alejandro and Petrus smiled at each other and Jes s noticed the redhead's lovely grey and pensive eyes."Where did...

Reducere. "A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre."--Teju Cole, The New Yorker German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative autho...

Reducere. This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the...

DescriptionIn Rivers Applaud Forever, Raymond Filip, the craftsman and musician, showcases his spoken-word texts that perform on a silent page, as ...

Reducere. Poetry. Edited by Gian Lombardo. For the first time ever, this volume collects together all of Harry Crosby's published prose poems, including the ...

DescriptionPoetry. Literary Nonfiction. Latinx Studies. Edited by Tony Frazer. Translated by Michael Smith, Luis Ingelmo, Tony Frazer, Eliot Weinbe...

Reducere. The Ventriloquist gives us four fearless and seminal works by one of Canada's master poets and is a scathing indictment of war and its ravages. It'...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is "a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and ...

Reducere. Kurihara Sadako is one of the poetic giants of the nuclear age. Born in Hiroshima in 1913, she was in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. From then till n...

fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe....

Reducere. I m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form...

Reducere. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The...

DescriptionWhen A Passionate Prodigality was first published in 1933 it was hailed as one of the finest English works to have come out of the First...

This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S...

The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory...

Vernon Watkins is a great riddle at the heart of twentieth century poetry. His poetry has been praised in the highest terms by, among others, T.S. ...

Reducere. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Costa Biography Award**Washington Post Best Books of 2013****Economist Best Books of...

Reducere. A rare glimpse of a young C. S. Lewis. Spirits in Bondage reveals the earliest published thoughts of C. S. Lewis. However, we find an unfamiliar Le...

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study of the sources relating to prison...

Reducere. The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a beautiful bilingual editionMore than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's ...

Reducere. DescriptionBoris Vian is a rare phenomenon. Nothing short of a national treasure in France, he is hardly known overseas. In his lifetime, he divide...

Reducere. With Mother Russia under siege, a daring 17-year old teenage girl hangs up her ice skates and heads for the skies. Initially rebuffed as a child in...

DescriptionBased on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensu...

An incisive biography of E.E. Cummings' early life, including his First World War ambulance service and subsequent imprisonment, inspirations for h...

Reducere. From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atroc...

Reducere. With Mother Russia under siege, a daring 17-year old teenage girl hangs up her ice skates and heads for the skies. Initially rebuffed as a child in...

Reducere. DescriptionGadamer on Celan makes all of Hans-Georg Gadamer's published writings on Paul Celan's poetry available in English for the first time. Ga...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

From Homer to Tim O'Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are ...

Reducere. This is the translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) Book of Jewish community of Drohichin, Belarus. This history of Drohitchin/Drahichyn --in Belarus ...

Reducere. Presenting a comprehensive collection of the major comic strips from Milt Gross: Nize Baby, Count Screwloose, and Dave's Delicatessen, along with o...

This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has...