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Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Includes thematic analysis and critical views on Wilfred Owen's poems "Dulce et decorum est, ""Strange meeting, ""Anthem for doomed youth" and "Futility, " and Isaac Rosenberg's poems "The dead heroes, ""Break of day in the trenches, ""Dead man's dump" and "A worm fed on the heart of Corinth."
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic...