The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War (Paperback)

Part I. Historical and Critical Contexts: Reconfiguring First World War poetry: an introduction Santanu Das; 1. First World War poetry: a cultural landscape Vincent Sherry; 2. Poetic form and the First World War Peter Howarth; Part II. 'Soldier-Poets': 3. Early poets of the First World War Elizabeth Vandiver; 4. Later poets of the First World War Mark Rawlinson; 5. Siegfried Sassoon Sarah Cole; 6. Isaac Rosenberg Neil Corcoran; 7. Wilfred Owen Sandra Gilbert; 8. Edward Thomas and Ivor Gurney Edna Longley; 9. David Jones Adrian Poole; Part III. Archipelagic, Commonwealth and Civilian Poetry: 10. Archipelagic poetry of the First World War David Goldie; 11. Colonial poetry of the First World War Simon Featherstone; 12. Women's poetry of the First World War Margaret Higonnet; 13. Civilian war poetry: Hardy and Kipling Tim Kendall; 14. First World War and modernist poetry: Pound and Eliot Christine Froula; Part IV. Afterlives of First World War Poetry: 15. 'But that is not new': poetic legacies of the First World War Jay Winter; 16. A conversation: Michael Longley, Andrew Motion and Jon Stallworthy Santanu Das; Guide to further reading; Index.