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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
Max Egremont
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Description for Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
Hardback. After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJF; DSC; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 616.
2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets - many of whom were killed - show not only the war's tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred ... Read more
2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets - many of whom were killed - show not only the war's tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447241997
SKU
9781447241997
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About Max Egremont
Max Egremont studied history at Oxford University. As well as four novels, he has written biographies of Arthur Balfour, Major-General Sir Edward Spears and Siegfried Sassoon, and Some Desperate Glory: the First World War the Poets Knew. His Forgotten Land: Journeys among the Ghosts of East Prussia (2011) has been described as ‘a work of consummate artistry’ (the Spectator), ... Read more
Reviews for Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
As curator of this anthology, Egremont usefully and succinctly sets each year of poems in the historical progress of the war and in the biographical context of the hopes, ideals, experiences and emotions of their makers. At first hand we mark the making of them as men and follow the shifting terms of their visions. This is what it was ... Read more