The Remembered Dead: Poetry, Memory and the First World War

by Sally Minogue and Andrew Palmer

Book Overview

The Remembered Dead explores the ways poets of the First World War - and later poets writing in the memory of that war - address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in conflict. It looks closely at the way poets struggled to meaningfully represent dying, death, and the trauma of witness, while responding to the pressing need for commemoration. The authors pay close attention to specific poems while maintaining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108450873
• ISBN13: 9781108450874
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"