The Poetry of Shell Shock by Daniel Hipp - 9780786421749

The Poetry of Shell ShockWartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried Sassoon\nAuthor(s): Daniel Hipp\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc, United States\nImprint: McFarland & Co Inc\nISBN-13: 9780786421749, 978-0786421749\nSynopsis\nThe British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for \""shell shock\"" in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war's final year, his doctors observed signs of mental illness, which evolved into incapacitating psychosis by 1922.\n\nFor each of these men--all poets before the war--poetry served as a way to inscribe continuity into their lives, enabling them to re.