Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War

by Joel Baetz

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period's poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with war poetry. Readers bought thousands of volumes of poetry. Twenty years later, by the time Canada went to war again, no one remembered any of it.

Battle Lines traces the rise and disappearance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771123192
• ISBN13: 9781771123198
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"