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The Oxford book of war poetry / chosen and edited by Jon Stallworthy.

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1984.

xxxi, 358 pages ; 23 cm

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, Northern Ireland, and El Salvador, as well as the chilling visions of the 'Next War'. Reflecting the feelings of authors as diverse as Virgil, Daniel Defoe, Emily Dickinson, and Adrian Mitchell, 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', and to women and children.

War poetry.

War poetry.

Poetry.

Stallworthy, Jon.

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350).

Also issued online.

Joseph Addison -- Richard Aldington -- Kenneth Allott -- Aneirin -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Louis Aragon -- Matthew Arnold -- Herbert Asquith -- Margaret Atwood -- W.H. Auden -- William Edmonstoune Aytoun -- Joel Barlow -- O. Bernard -- Sir John Betjeman -- Laurence Binyon -- John Peale Bishop -- Edmund Blunden -- William Lisle Bowles -- Rupert Brooke -- Robert Browning -- Lord George Gordon Noel Byron -- Norman Cameron -- Thomas Campbell -- May Wedderburn Cannan -- Charles Causley -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- G.K. Chesterton -- Joseph P. Clancy -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- John Cornford -- Stephen Crane -- T.W.H. Crosland -- Kevin Crossley-Holland -- E.E. Cummings -- R.N. Currey -- Samuel Daniel -- Elizabeth Daryush -- Sir William Davenant -- Donald Davie -- C. Day Lewis -- Daniel Defoe -- Paul Dehn -- James Dickey -- Emily Dickinson -- John Donne -- Hilda Doolittle -- Keith Douglas -- Michael Drayton -- John Dryden -- Douglas Dunn -- Richard Eberhart -- T.S. Eliot -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Gavin Ewart -- James Fenton -- Robert Fitzgerald -- Ephim Fogel -- Carolyn Forche -- Robert Frost -- Roy Fuller -- George Gascoigne -- David Gascoyne -- Allen Ginsberg -- Robert Graves -- Julian Grenfell -- Thom Gunn -- Ivor Gurney -- Thomas Hardy -- Seamus Heaney -- Anthony Hecht -- Geoffrey Hill -- Homer -- Horace -- A.E. Houusman -- Henry (Earl of Surrey) Howard -- Julia Ward Howe -- Ted Hughes -- Victor Hugo -- Randall Jarrell -- Samuel Johnson -- David Jones -- Sidney Keyes -- Galway Kinnell -- Rudyard Kipling -- Lincoln Kirstein -- Stanley Kunitz -- Philip Larkin -- Laurie Lee -- J.B. Leishman -- Denise Levertov -- Alun Lewis -- Sir Richard Lovelace -- James Russell Lowell -- Robert Lowell -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay -- George MacBeth -- John McCrae -- Hugh MacDiarmid -- Archibald MacLeish -- Louis MacNeice -- Allen Mandelbaum -- Andrew Marvell -- Hermn Melville -- Robert Mezey -- James Michie -- Adam Mickiewicz -- John Milton -- Adrian Mitchell -- Marianne Moore -- Howard Nemerov -- Sir Henry Newbolt -- George Orwell -- Wilfred Owen -- George Peele -- Benjamin Peret -- Peter Porter -- Ezra Pound -- F.T. Prince -- John Pudney -- Herbert Read -- Henry Reed -- Edgell Rickwood -- Rihaku -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Arthur Rimbaud -- T.W. Riolleston -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Alan Ross -- Charles (Earl of Dorset) Sackville -- Carl Sandburg -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Vernon Scannell -- John (of Amwell) Scott -- Karl Shapiro -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Simonides -- Louis Simpson -- Edith Sitwell -- W.D. Snodgrass -- Charles Sorley -- Robert Southey -- Bernard Spencer -- Stephen Spender -- Edmund Spenser -- William Stafford -- Jon Stallworthy -- Wallace Stevens -- Allen Tate -- James Tate -- Lord Alfred Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Dylan Thomas -- Edward Thomas -- James Thomson -- Charles Tomlinson -- William Tyndale -- Fyodor Tyutchev -- Virgil -- Andrei Voznesensky -- Arthur Waley -- Edgar Wallace -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Walt Whitman -- Richard Wilbur -- Charles Wolfe -- William Wordsworth -- W.B. Yeats.

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