First World War Poems - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0571221203 ISBN 13: 9780571221202

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2004

Riassunto

In this moving anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through the horror and the pity of the Great War, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light, and extends the selection right through to the present day - so that poems produced by the war give way historically to poems about the war. This mesmerizing book reminds us how the poetry of that time has, more than any art form, come to stand testament to the grief and outrage occasioned by World War I.

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Descrizione del libro:

First World War Poems, edited by former poet laureate Andrew Motion, is a moving and mesmerizing poetry anthology, recalling forgotten pieces as well as featuring a generous selection of our best-loved war poets.

L'autore:

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009; he is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and co-founder of the online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, and has published four celebrated biographies. His group study The Lamberts won the Somerset Maugham Award and his authorised life of Philip Larkin won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Andrew Motion's novella The Invention of Dr Cake (2003) was described as 'amazingly clever' by the Irish Times and praised for 'brilliant and almost hallucinatory vividness' by the Sunday Telegraph. His memoir, In the Blood (2006), was described as 'the most moving and exquisitely written account of childhood loss I have ever read' in the Independent on Sunday. His most recent collection of poems is The Customs House (2012). Andrew Motion was knighted for his services to poetry in 2009. In 2014 he received the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571221203
• ISBN 13: 9780571221202
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Redattore: Motion Sir Andrew