Bibliograph

To the war poets, John Greening

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To the war poets, John Greening

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

To the war poets

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

863822239

Responsibility statement

John Greening

Summary

In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: No larks, just the passing of traffic. Greening explores Englishness, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forces' shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greening's precise, unsentimental writing

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Epigraph; War; On the Eastern Front; Pleasure in Form; In Despair; To August Stramm, Georg Trakl, Ernst Stadler, Georg Heym; The Train; To Isaac Rosenberg; The Island A to Z; To Wilfrid Gibson; The Hope Valley Line; 11; To John McCrae; To Robert Nichols; Feast Day, Melchbourne; To Edmund Blunden; Reading John Clare on New Year's Eve; Causeway; (British Museum) : To Laurence Binyon (British Museum); So it Runs; In Trafalgar Square; To Siegfried Sassoon; Yeats Dances; Dropping Slow Lines for Dennis O'Driscoll; Odyssey

Target audience

adult

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Contributor