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Author Goldensohn, Lorrie.
Title Dismantling glory : twentieth-century soldier poetry.
Publication Info New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.



Descript 1 online resource (346 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Dignities of Danger -- Dismantling Glory -- Far with the Brave We Have Ridden -- The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity -- The Boundaries of War -- "Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against" -- The Troubled Stream -- 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" -- Introduction: The Fellowship of Death -- "One must see and feel" -- "The pity of War" -- 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" -- England's Auden
Where the War Poets Were -- 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale -- "Simplify me when I'm dead" -- "The glorious bran tub" -- "Bête Noire" -- 5. Randall Jarrell's War -- The Particulars of the Poem -- "He learns to fight for freedom and the State" -- A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind -- "Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can" -- "A fresh visionary tension" -- 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War -- "Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well" -- Winning Hearts and Minds -- Carrying the Darkness -- Beautiful Wreckage -- "Brothers in the Nam" -- Men and Women and Women -- Raids on Homer
Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Further Acknowledgments
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780231513036
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Author Goldensohn, Lorrie.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war.
War and literature -- English-speaking countries.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
Descript 1 online resource (346 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Dignities of Danger -- Dismantling Glory -- Far with the Brave We Have Ridden -- The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity -- The Boundaries of War -- "Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against" -- The Troubled Stream -- 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" -- Introduction: The Fellowship of Death -- "One must see and feel" -- "The pity of War" -- 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" -- England's Auden
Where the War Poets Were -- 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale -- "Simplify me when I'm dead" -- "The glorious bran tub" -- "Bête Noire" -- 5. Randall Jarrell's War -- The Particulars of the Poem -- "He learns to fight for freedom and the State" -- A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind -- "Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can" -- "A fresh visionary tension" -- 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War -- "Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well" -- Winning Hearts and Minds -- Carrying the Darkness -- Beautiful Wreckage -- "Brothers in the Nam" -- Men and Women and Women -- Raids on Homer
Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Further Acknowledgments
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780231513036
Author Goldensohn, Lorrie.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war.
War and literature -- English-speaking countries.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.

Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war.
War and literature -- English-speaking countries.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
Descript 1 online resource (346 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Preliminary -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Dignities of Danger -- Dismantling Glory -- Far with the Brave We Have Ridden -- The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity -- The Boundaries of War -- "Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against" -- The Troubled Stream -- 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" -- Introduction: The Fellowship of Death -- "One must see and feel" -- "The pity of War" -- 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" -- England's Auden
Where the War Poets Were -- 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale -- "Simplify me when I'm dead" -- "The glorious bran tub" -- "Bête Noire" -- 5. Randall Jarrell's War -- The Particulars of the Poem -- "He learns to fight for freedom and the State" -- A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind -- "Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can" -- "A fresh visionary tension" -- 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War -- "Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well" -- Winning Hearts and Minds -- Carrying the Darkness -- Beautiful Wreckage -- "Brothers in the Nam" -- Men and Women and Women -- Raids on Homer
Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Further Acknowledgments
Note 325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780231513036

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