商品簡介
The horrors of the First World War brought released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it. Edith Wharton, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke are just some of the poets whose work is featured in this anthology. The raw emotion unleashed in these poets still has the power to move readers today. As well as poems detailing the miseries of war there are poems on themes of bravery, friendship and loyalty, and this collection shows how even in the depths of despair the human spirit can still triumph.
作者簡介
This anthology includes famous verses from Edith Wharton, Amy Lowell, Alan Seeger and many more.Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight.Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.Alan Seeger was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger, and was a classmate of T.S. Eliot at Harvard. He is best known for the poem, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a favorite of President John F. Kennedy.
