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- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Fighting Talk: Victorian War Poetry
- ‘Graver things … braver things’: Hardy's War Poetry
- From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling's War Poetry
- War Poetry and the Realm of the Senses: Owen and Rosenberg
- ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’: The Women Poets of the First World War
- Wilfred Owen
- Shakespeare and the Great War
- Was there a Scottish War Literature? Scotland, Poetry, and the First World War
- War Poetry, or the Poetry of War? Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney
- The Great War and Modernist Poetry
- A War of Friendship: Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon
- ‘Easter, 1916’: Yeats's First World War Poem
- ‘What the dawn will bring to light’: Credulity and Commitment in the Ideological Construction of ‘Spain’
- Unwriting the Good Fight: W. H. Auden's ‘Spain 1937’
- War, Politics, and Disappearing Poetry: Auden, Yeats, Empson
- ‘Others have come before you’: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Second World War Poets
- ‘Death's Proletariat’: Scottish Poets of the Second World War
- Occupying New Territory: Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh-Language Poetry of the Second World War
- The Muse that Failed: Poetry and Patriotism during the Second World War
- Louis MacNeice's War
- Sidney Keyes in Historical Perspective
- Anthologizing War
- Women's Poetry of the First and Second World Wars
- War Pastorals
- The Poetry of Pain
- ‘Down in the terraces between the targets’: Civilians
- The War Remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes
- ‘For Isaac Rosenberg’: Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal Ó Searcaigh
- The Fury and the Mire
- ‘This is plenty. This is more than enough’: Poetry and the Memory of the Second World War
- British Holocaust Poetry: Songs of Experience
- Quiet Americans: Responses to War in Some British and American Poetry of the 1960s
- Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry
- ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’: Contemporary War and the Non-combatant Poet
- ‘That dark permanence of ancient forms’: Negotiating with the Epic in Northern Irish Poetry of the Troubles
- ‘Stalled in the Pre-articulate’: Heaney, Poetry, and War
- Unavowed Engagement: Paul Muldoon as War Poet
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter evaluates Wilfred Owen, who has become synonymous with war poetry, and studies the posthumousness of his public literary career and the architecture of his poetry. The latter reveals that each of Owen's poems takes an entirely different aspect of the war, is always centred in a particular incident, which it then builds around. The chapter studies Owen's distancing from Siegfried Sassoon and how his poetry located positive value in ‘the inwardness of war’, also showing that Owen not only told his readers what the war was like, but also tried to connect feelings about war and its negations.
Keywords: Wilfred Owen, posthumousness, public literary career, structure of poetry, aspect of war, inwardness, feelings about war
Mark Rawlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. He is the author of British Writing of the Second World War (2000). He is currently finishing a book on the Second World War in fiction after 1945, writing a monograph on Pat Barker, and researching the cultural significance of camouflage.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Fighting Talk: Victorian War Poetry
- ‘Graver things … braver things’: Hardy's War Poetry
- From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling's War Poetry
- War Poetry and the Realm of the Senses: Owen and Rosenberg
- ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’: The Women Poets of the First World War
- Wilfred Owen
- Shakespeare and the Great War
- Was there a Scottish War Literature? Scotland, Poetry, and the First World War
- War Poetry, or the Poetry of War? Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, Ivor Gurney
- The Great War and Modernist Poetry
- A War of Friendship: Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon
- ‘Easter, 1916’: Yeats's First World War Poem
- ‘What the dawn will bring to light’: Credulity and Commitment in the Ideological Construction of ‘Spain’
- Unwriting the Good Fight: W. H. Auden's ‘Spain 1937’
- War, Politics, and Disappearing Poetry: Auden, Yeats, Empson
- ‘Others have come before you’: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Second World War Poets
- ‘Death's Proletariat’: Scottish Poets of the Second World War
- Occupying New Territory: Alun Llywelyn-Williams and Welsh-Language Poetry of the Second World War
- The Muse that Failed: Poetry and Patriotism during the Second World War
- Louis MacNeice's War
- Sidney Keyes in Historical Perspective
- Anthologizing War
- Women's Poetry of the First and Second World Wars
- War Pastorals
- The Poetry of Pain
- ‘Down in the terraces between the targets’: Civilians
- The War Remains of Keith Douglas and Ted Hughes
- ‘For Isaac Rosenberg’: Geoffrey Hill, Michael Longley, Cathal Ó Searcaigh
- The Fury and the Mire
- ‘This is plenty. This is more than enough’: Poetry and the Memory of the Second World War
- British Holocaust Poetry: Songs of Experience
- Quiet Americans: Responses to War in Some British and American Poetry of the 1960s
- Pointing to East and West: British Cold War Poetry
- ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’: Contemporary War and the Non-combatant Poet
- ‘That dark permanence of ancient forms’: Negotiating with the Epic in Northern Irish Poetry of the Troubles
- ‘Stalled in the Pre-articulate’: Heaney, Poetry, and War
- Unavowed Engagement: Paul Muldoon as War Poet
- Index
