Fighting Songs and Warring Words Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars

Name: Fighting Songs and Warring Words Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars
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ISBN: 9780415031844

ISBN-10: 0415031842

ISBN-13: 9780415031844

Edition: 1990

Authors: Brian Murdoch

List price: $180.00

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In the century which has been dominated by two world wars, from both of which arose a prodigious amount of poetry, `war poetry' and `war poet' have become everyday literary terms. Yet the accepted canon of war poetry covers only a very limited range of the lyrics which have been written about war in the twentieth century, underlining patriotic or nationalistic views, mocking the enemy and the enemy leaders, and providing comfort for both the soldiers and those left at home. With the inclusion of material rarely included in studies and anthologies, such as Nazi poetry and song, the poetry of the atomic bomb, and music hall lyrics, the book opens up the view of war poetry in the twentieth…

Book details

List price: $180.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/24/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English