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Article: Modern English War Poetry.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Modern English War Poetry. By TIM KENDALL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. viii+276 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927676-9.
This is a feisty book, argumentative and enjoyable, unsurprising when one finds that many of its chapters have been published as articles or delivered as lectures. 'Modern' in its title means late nineteenth century and after, while the exact nature of 'war poetry' is what is debated throughout the book.
Tim Kendall proposes 'a tradition of modern English war poetry' from the Boer War to the present. He takes the First World War poets as a centre, with the crucial Wilfred Owen in Chapter 3, but claiming the equal ...