Out of Battle

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Out of Battle is a poet's book, notable for its profound compassion and concern with the roots of human experience: the qualities which distinguish Jon Silkin's poems. Taking as his starting point such nineteenth-century poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge, who exemplify the conflict between nationalism and those ideas about the brotherhood of man that developed into socialism, Mr. Silkin proceeds to examine the 'war poetry' of Hardy, Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington, Ford Madox Ford, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Jones.
No other book on this subject - central to the mythology of the twentieth century -ranges so widely or probes so deeply the responses and achievements of the 'war poets'.
JON SILKIN, born in London in 1930, is the editor of the magazine Stand, and the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Re-ordering of Stones, Nature with Man, and Amana... Tovább

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Out of Battle is a poet's book, notable for its profound compassion and concern with the roots of human experience: the qualities which distinguish Jon Silkin's poems. Taking as his starting point such nineteenth-century poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge, who exemplify the conflict between nationalism and those ideas about the brotherhood of man that developed into socialism, Mr. Silkin proceeds to examine the 'war poetry' of Hardy, Kipling, Rupert Brooke, Edmund Blunden, Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Siegfried Sassoon, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington, Ford Madox Ford, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and David Jones.
No other book on this subject - central to the mythology of the twentieth century -ranges so widely or probes so deeply the responses and achievements of the 'war poets'.
JON SILKIN, born in London in 1930, is the editor of the magazine Stand, and the author of several volumes of poetry, including The Re-ordering of Stones, Nature with Man, and Amana Grass (1971). His New and Selected Poems appeared in 1966.
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