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Author:

Egremont, Max, 1948-

Title:

Some desperate glory : the First World War the poets knew / Max Egremont.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
World War, 1914-1918--Poetry.
War poetry, English.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

Examines "the life and work of [the WWI poets--many of whom were killed--which shows not only the war's tragedy but also the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men]: Wilfred Owen with his flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves, who would later spurn his war poems; the nature-loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert Brooke; and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols--all fought in the war, and their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of unprecedented destruction"--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9780374280321
0374280320

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)