Second World War Poems
Published on 2. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-571-38260-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Second World War has shaped the modern world more than any other single event. This generous and haunting selection of English-language and translated poems includes verse written by servicemen who participated in the war - Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Randall Jarrell - as well as by survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust - Primo Levi, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan - and civilians across Europe and beyond. It features work by important women poets - Elizabeth Bishop, H.D., Anna Akhmatova - exiles such as W. H. Auden and Berthold Brecht, and writers reporting from London, Paris, Warsaw, Moscow and New York, dealing with the terrifying impact and legacy of the conflict. Presented with a historical critical introduction and biographical notes, the result is a vital lyric testimony to the tragic global theatre of the war.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-38260-6 (9780571382606)
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Hugh Haughton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Literature at the University of York. He is author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (2007) and editor of The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry (1988); Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny (2004); and, with Valerie Eliot, The Letters of T. S. Eliot volumes 1 and 2 (2008).