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Isaac Rosenberg
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
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Description for Isaac Rosenberg
Paperback. First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 38. Weight in Grams: 452.
First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.
Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged only twenty-seven, his tragic early death resembling that of many other well-known poets of that conflict. But he differed from the majority of Great War poets in almost every other respect - race, class, education, upbringing, experience and technique. He was a skilled painter as well as a brilliant poet. The son of impoverished immigrant Russian Jews, he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753825778
SKU
V9780753825778
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Ref
99-50
About Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Jean Moorcroft Wilson lectured in English at the University of Munich and is now lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.
Reviews for Isaac Rosenberg
a compelling portrait of a poet who never lost his illusions about the war because he never had any in the first place
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