
Isaac Rosenberg
The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life
Jean Moorcroft Wilson(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 1. March 2009
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-0-8101-2604-6 (ISBN)
Description
Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoversihed Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as the age of 27. In Isaac Rosenberg, Wilson examines the influence of Rosenberg's class and heritage on his writings, as well as the development of his poetic technique. She traces his maturation from his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London to art school, his travels to South Africa, and finally his harrowing service as a private in the British Army.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 b-w 22 color
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
821 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2604-6 (9780810126046)
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Person
Jean Moorcraft Wilson is a lecturer at Birbeck College, London. She has written acclaimed biogrpahies of Seigfried Sassoon and Charles Hamilton Sorley, which have become standard works in First World War literature.