War PoemsJohn Hollander Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 Eki 1999 - 256 sayfa From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich's Vietnam-era "Newsreel." An extraordinary anthology. |
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Foreword | 11 |
HOMER A Pause in the Fighting | 25 |
HORACE Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori | 40 |
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The Colored Soldiers | 140 |
FRANCIS MILES FINCH The Blue and the Gray | 148 |
THOMAS HARDY Channel Firing | 155 |
GEORG TRAKL Trumpets | 161 |
MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Rouen | 170 |
SIEGFRIED SASSOON The Rearguard | 176 |
EDWARD THOMAS As the Teams Head Brass | 184 |
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