Format:
Book
Author:
Korda, Michael, 1933- author.
Title:
Muse of fire : World War I as seen through the lives of the soldier poets / Michael Korda.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, [2024]
Description:
xvi, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic account, which includes anecdotes from his own family history, not only brings to life the soldier poets but paints an unforgettable picture of life and death in the trenches, and the sacrifice of an entire generation. His cast of characters includes the young American poet Alan Seeger, who was killed in action as a private in the French Foreign Legion; Isaac Rosenberg, whose parents had fled czarist anti-Semitic persecution and who was killed in action at the age of twenty-eight before his fame as a poet and a painter was recognized; Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, whose friendship and friendly rivalry endured through long, complicated private lives; and, finally, Owen, whose fame came only posthumously and whose poetry remains some of the most savage and heartbreaking to emerge from the cataclysmic war"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Seeger, Alan, 1888-1916.
Rosenberg, Isaac, 1890-1918.
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war -- Biography.
Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
War poetry, English -- History and criticism.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Soldiers' writings, English -- History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index.
"His epic narrative begins with Rupert Brooke, "the handsomest young man in England" and perhaps its most famous young poet in the halcyon days of the Edwardian Age, and ends five years later with Wilfred Owen, killed in action at twenty-five, only one week before the armistice. With bitter irony, Owen's mother received the telegram informing her of his death on November 11, just as church bells tolled to celebrate the war's end. Korda's dramatic account, which includes anecdotes from his own family history, not only brings to life the soldier poets but paints an unforgettable picture of life and death in the trenches, and the sacrifice of an entire generation. His cast of characters includes the young American poet Alan Seeger, who was killed in action as a private in the French Foreign Legion; Isaac Rosenberg, whose parents had fled czarist anti-Semitic persecution and who was killed in action at the age of twenty-eight before his fame as a poet and a painter was recognized; Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, whose friendship and friendly rivalry endured through long, complicated private lives; and, finally, Owen, whose fame came only posthumously and whose poetry remains some of the most savage and heartbreaking to emerge from the cataclysmic war"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9781631496882
1631496883
Other Number:
1429158465
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Current Holds:
2
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1
Control Number:
1734676
Call Number:
821.912 S451k
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0
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