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The New Oxford Book of War Poetry. Chosen and edited by John Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

When you hear the phrase ‘war poetry’, what springs to mind? Most likely the sort of poetry which rose to prominence during the First World War: morally disgusted apostrophes directed at the society which allowed the disaster to take place, appalled descriptions of the physical consequences of warfare, evocations of confusion, hopelessness etc. Such poetry, though, can only be brought off by an eye-witness. The stay-athome poet, who knows no more of war personally than the reader, has difficulty with them. After all, his only claim on our attention is that he has greater powers to feel a widely acknowledged evil more sharply than we do – something we are bound to suspect as an imposition. That is: satisfactory works which conform to the generally received notion of ‘war poetry’ are bound to be few, and would make for a very slim anthology indeed. With this in mind, it is a pleasure to be able to confirm that The New Oxford Book of War Poetry, while taking a ‘hard-line’ on such usurpations of authority (as related in an addendum to the original introduction), none the less manages to include plenty of fine material.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2015.02.12
Lizenz: ESV-Lizenz
ISSN: 1866-5381
Ausgabe / Jahr: 2 / 2015
Veröffentlicht: 2015-12-07
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