The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second World War poetry in the English language, gathering the raw, urgent voices of those who lived and died through the conflict. Selected, arranged, and introduced by Brian Gardner, this anthology presents an extraordinary breadth of verse — from celebrated poets to voices long since silenced — chronicling the full human cost of the war across every theatre of battle, from the deserts of North Africa to the bombed streets of Britain. Gardner weaves together poems of courage, grief, absurdity, and quiet heroism, illustrating how poetry became the primary instrument through which a generation processed the unprocessable. The collection argues persuasively that the poetry of the Second World War, though often overshadowed by its Great War predecessors, possesses its own distinct moral authority and aesthetic power. Gardner's editorial hand is assured and sensitive, drawing connections between poets of vastly different backgrounds and circumstances, and his scholarly introduction and notes ground each voice in its historical moment. For anyone seeking to understand not merely the facts of the war but its emotional and psychological truth, this anthology remains an essential and profoundly moving testament — one that asks, with quiet insistence, what exactly it costs a civilisation to survive.
Author: Brian Gardner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Methuen & Co Ltd
Genre: Anthology
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939–1945 stands as one of the most powerful and enduring collections of Second World War poetry in the English language, gathering the raw, urgent voices of those who lived and died through the conflict. Selected, arranged, and introduced by Brian Gardner, this anthology presents an extraordinary breadth of verse — from celebrated poets to voices long since silenced — chronicling the full human cost of the war across every theatre of battle, from the deserts of North Africa to the bombed streets of Britain. Gardner weaves together poems of courage, grief, absurdity, and quiet heroism, illustrating how poetry became the primary instrument through which a generation processed the unprocessable. The collection argues persuasively that the poetry of the Second World War, though often overshadowed by its Great War predecessors, possesses its own distinct moral authority and aesthetic power. Gardner's editorial hand is assured and sensitive, drawing connections between poets of vastly different backgrounds and circumstances, and his scholarly introduction and notes ground each voice in its historical moment. For anyone seeking to understand not merely the facts of the war but its emotional and psychological truth, this anthology remains an essential and profoundly moving testament — one that asks, with quiet insistence, what exactly it costs a civilisation to survive.