Poetry of War

Name: Poetry of War
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ISBN: 9780521710220

ISBN-10: 0521710227

ISBN-13: 9780521710220

Edition: 2008

Authors: James Anderson Winn

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Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise the victor while mourning the victim; they honor the dead while raising deep questions about the meaning of honor. Poets have given memorable expression to the personal motives that send men forth to fight: idealism, shame, comradeship, revenge. They have also helped shape the larger ideas that nations and cultures invoke as incentives for warfare: patriotism, religion, empire, chivalry, freedom. The Poetry of War shows how poets have shaped and questioned our basic ideas about warfare. Reading great poetry, Winn argues, can help us make informed political…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Terrible beauty



Honor and memory



Shame and slaughter



The cost of empire



The myth of chivalry



Comrades in arms



The cause of liberty


Notes


Index