Description

Introducing students to the full range of critical approachesto the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritativeand accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responsesto the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guidesthe reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoreticalperspectives, including:

- Classical
- Formalist
- Psychoanalytic
- Marxist
- Structuralist
- Reader-response
- New Historicist
- Feminist

Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetryfrom British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores thework of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, EvaDobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, MargaretSackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, IsaacRosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.