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   What is war poetry?

   • Suffering, mourning, patriotism, pity, and love were universally, if not equally, experienced. Thus “war poetry” is as all-encompassing as total war itself. Discussions of First World War poetry tend to be dominated by English names: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918).

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   What poems are based on war and peace?

   • Poets participate in a panel on war and peace poems. Veteran Kevin Powers’s celebrated novel The Yellow Birds has its origins in his poetry. “Are We All Monsters?” Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal grapples with the Holocaust, poverty, Vietnam, and then some. Don't Let Me Be Lonely: “I don't usually talk to strangers...”

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   Why is war poetry important?

   • It is, however, about the very large questions of life: identity, innocence, guilt, loyalty, courage, compassion, humanity, duty, desire, death. Its response to these questions, and its relation of immediate personal experience to moments of national and international crisis, gives war poetry an extra-literary importance.

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   Who wrote war poetry?

   • Although ‘war poet’ tends traditionally to refer to active combatants, war poetry has been written by many ‘civilians’ caught up in conflict in other ways: Cesar Vallejo and WH Auden in the Spanish Civil War, Margaret Postgate Cole and Rose Macaulay in the First World War, James Fenton in Cambodia.

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   Feb 2, 2021 · Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined voice has become one of the defining texts of Twentieth Century Europe.

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   This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poetic responses generated by the Great War from an international perspective.

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   Jan 5, 2024 · What Is War Poetry—and When is a War Poem an Antiwar Poem? A conversation between our Poetry Editor, Dr. Katherine Hollander, and poet and scholar, Dr. Larry Rosenwald, that focuses on antiwar literature and peace movements.

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5. interestingliterature.com › 2015 › 11The Best War Poems Everyone Should Read - Interesting Literature

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   Nov 2, 2015 · There are many great war poems out there and there have been a great number of popular war poets. Putting together a universal list of the best war poetry raises all sorts of questions.

6. war.web.ox.ac.uk › intro-ww1-poetryIntro to WW1 Poetry | War Collections - University of Oxford

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   What is 'War Poetry'? Without doubt this question is central to this series of seminars on the poets of the First World War, and worth confronting from the beginning. Jon Stallworthy, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of War Poetry (1984) begins by evoking the emotive force of the poems in his anthology:

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   War Poetry. Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war. BY The Editors. Articles About War And War Poetry. 100 Years of Poetry: The Magazine and War. Abigail Deutsch. A historical look at the role of poetry in wartime. American Service.

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   The 'War Poets' constitute an imperative presence in modern British literature with significant writers such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Isaac Rosenberg.