Strange Meetings - The Lives of the Poets of the Great War

Informationen zum Autor Harry Ricketts is a poet, writer and critic. After studying English at Oxford he lectured in Hong Kong and Leicester and now teaches literature and creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to his collections of poetry, essays - and brilliant studies of cricket - his critical books include the acclaimed biography The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling. Klappentext Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918 written through a series of actual encounters or near-encounters from Siegfried Sassoon's first blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Wilfred Owen when both were in hospital on to the last strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964 half a century after the Great War began. Among the other poets and writers we encounter are Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Robert Nichols and Edmund Blunden. We follow their relationships marking their responses to each other's work and showing how these affected their own poetry.We come to know each of the poets their family and intellectual backgrounds and their very different personalities. We get a fresh sense of Georgian poetry conveying all the excitement and frustration of poetic creation and demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be 'about' became fractured and changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war. Zusammenfassung Provides an account of War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at same time.

Product details

• Authors: Harry Ricketts
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9781845951801
• ISBN: 978-1-84595-180-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary studies: poetry and poets