The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars
fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton, among others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new
coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.


Author: Jon Stallworthy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/04/2016
Pages: 390
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780198704485
ISBN10: 0198704488
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)

About the Author

Jon Stallworthy is a poet and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many distinguished works of poetry, criticism, and translation. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats's poetry, and prize-winning biographies of Louis MacNiece and Wilfred Owen, which was hailed by Graham Greene as one of the finest biographies of our time. He is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen's poetry.