Survivors Songs From Maldon to Somme Jon Stallworthy Hardcover 9780521899062

Name: Survivors Songs From Maldon to Somme Jon Stallworthy Hardcover 9780521899062
Brand: Jon Stallworthy

Jon Stallworthy

Survivors' SongsFrom Maldon to the Somme\nAuthor(s): Jon Stallworthy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521899062, 978-0521899062\nSynopsis\nFrom Homer to Heaney, the voices of men and women have seldom been more piercing, more poignant, than in time of conflict. For fifty years, Jon Stallworthy has been attuned to such voices. In Survivors' Songs he explores a series of poetic encounters with war, with essays on Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and others. Beautifully written, this moving book sets the poetry and prose of the First World War and its aftermath in the wider context of writing about warfare from prehistoric Troy to Anglo-Saxon England; from Agincourt to Flanders; from El Alamein to Vietnam; from the wars of yesterday to the wars of tomorrow.