Synopses & Reviews
There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. The 250 poems included in this acclaimed anthology span centuries of human conflict from David's lament for Saul and Jonathan, and Homer's Iliad, to the finest poems of the Second World War, Vietnam, the conflicts in Northern Ireland and El Salvador, and chilling visions of the "Next War." Reflecting the feelings of poets as diverse as Byron, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, and Heaney, they reveal a great shift in social awareness from man's early celebratory "war songs" to the more recent "anti-war" attitudes of poets responding to "man's inhumanity to man."
Review
"Reminds one of the large numbers and great variety of war poems from many centuries that are very good poems. Mr. Stallworthy's selections include most of the best, at least the best in English."--New York Times Book Review
"Excellently edited...this volume frames great evil and greater bravery."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This collection is of exceptionally high quality."--Washington Post Book World
"A beautiful memorial to a beastly business."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fine anthology."--ALA Booklist
Review
"Reminds one of the large numbers and great variety of war poems from many centuries that are very good poems. Mr. Stallworthy's selections include most of the best, at least the best in English."--New York Times Book Review
"Excellently edited...this volume frames great evil and greater bravery."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"This collection is of exceptionally high quality."--Washington Post Book World
"A beautiful memorial to a beastly business."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A fine anthology."--ALA Booklist
Synopsis
This chronological compilation of 250 powerful poems ranges Troy to the World Wars to El Salvador, from Homer to Whitman to Wilfred Owen.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and indexes.
Table of Contents
1. THE BIBLE from The Book of Exodus
2. from The Second Book of Samuel
to
1. PETER PORTER Your Attention Please
[ask editor for full details]