Poets of World War I : Rupert Brooke & Siegfried Sassoon /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bloom, Harold
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2003]
Series:	Bloom's major poets.
Subjects:	Brooke, Rupert, > 1887-1915 > Criticism and interpretation. Sassoon, Siegfried, > 1886-1967 > Criticism and interpretation. World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Literature and the war. Soldiers' writings, English > History and criticism. War poetry, English > History and criticism.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Biography of Rupert Brooke
Thematic analysis of "1914 : I. Peace"
Critical views on "1914 : I. Peace." Timothy Rogers on the origins of the 1914 sonnets ; John Lehmann on Brooke's Puritanism ; Bernard Bergonzi on the myth of Rupert Brooke
Thematic analysis of "1914 : III. The dead" and "1914 : IV. The dead"
Critical views on "1914 : III. The dead" and "1914 : IV. The dead." Christopher Hassall on the young Rupert Brooke ; Robert Pearsall on the philosophy of the 1914 sonnets ; Virginia Woolf remembers Rupert Brooke
Thematic analysis of "1914 : V. The soldier"
Critical views on "1914 : V. The soldier." Winston on one of England's "noblest sons" ; Arthur Stringer on mourning Rupert Brooke ; Jon Silkin on Brooke in the public service
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon
Thematic analysis of "Enemies"
Critical views on "Enemies." Michael Thorpe on human sympathy in Sassoon's war poems ; Joseph Cohen and the three roles of Sassoon ; John Middleton Murry on reading Siegfried Sassoon
Thematic analysis of "Conscripts"
Critical views on "Conscripts." Patrick Campbell on "Conscripts" ; Arthur E. Lane on realism in Sassoon's war poems ; George Parfitt on satire in Sassoon's poetry
Thematic analysis of "Attack"
Critical views on "Attack." Patrick Campbell on Sassoon's spiritual pilgrimage ; John H. Johnston on the fellowship of suffering in the war poems ; Thomas Mallon on Sassoon's memory of the war.