Rendezvous with Death American Poems of the Great War |
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| Editor:
| Van Wienen, Mark W. |
| Series title: | American Poetry Recovery Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-07059-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $49.99 |
Book Description:
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Instead of privileging the figure of the front-line and largely British soldier-poet, Van Wienen supplements the well-known canon of Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Siegfried Sassoon with lesser-known but nevertheless widely read American combatants, civilians, and women who wrote passionately on the events of World War I. -- ......
Instead of privileging the figure of the front-line and largely British soldier-poet, Van Wienen supplements the well-known canon of Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Siegfried Sassoon with lesser-known but nevertheless widely read American combatants, civilians, and women who wrote passionately on the events of World War I. -- ......