Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-18 & The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-45
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good, minor stain on boards.
Two anthologies stand as enduring monuments to the voices silenced and scarred by the twentieth century's most devastating conflicts — Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914–18 and The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–45, both selected and arranged by Brian Gardner. The first chronicles the raw, visceral poetry born from the trenches of the Western Front, gathering the immortal verses of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and their contemporaries into a single, haunting collection that captures the full arc of sentiment from patriotic fervour to bitter disillusionment. The second presents the literary response to a second global catastrophe, gathering the scattered voices of a new generation of soldier-poets who faced mechanised warfare, aerial bombardment, and the moral ambiguities of a conflict without a clear front line. Gardner's editorial vision is meticulous and authoritative, allowing the poems to speak in stark counterpoint to one another — hope against despair, heroism against horror. Together, these two volumes form an unparalleled record of war as witnessed by those who endured it, and raise a question that neither anthology fully answers: what does it cost a civilisation to send its poets to war?
Author: Brian Gardner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Methuen, London
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good, minor stain on boards.
Two anthologies stand as enduring monuments to the voices silenced and scarred by the twentieth century's most devastating conflicts — Up the Line to Death: The War Poets 1914–18 and The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–45, both selected and arranged by Brian Gardner. The first chronicles the raw, visceral poetry born from the trenches of the Western Front, gathering the immortal verses of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and their contemporaries into a single, haunting collection that captures the full arc of sentiment from patriotic fervour to bitter disillusionment. The second presents the literary response to a second global catastrophe, gathering the scattered voices of a new generation of soldier-poets who faced mechanised warfare, aerial bombardment, and the moral ambiguities of a conflict without a clear front line. Gardner's editorial vision is meticulous and authoritative, allowing the poems to speak in stark counterpoint to one another — hope against despair, heroism against horror. Together, these two volumes form an unparalleled record of war as witnessed by those who endured it, and raise a question that neither anthology fully answers: what does it cost a civilisation to send its poets to war?