Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War

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This text is an in-depth exploration of the variety of responses made by the following poets to the Great War: Rupert Brooke, Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas. Other poets discussed are Hardy, Kipling, Charles Sorely, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington and David Jones. This second edition contains a new preface by the author and an appendix on the unresolved problems concerning the Owen manuscripts.