The New Oxford Book of War Poetry

Author: Stallworthy, Jon (Emeritus Professor of English, Formerly Professor of English, Wolfson College, Oxford)

Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Published on 3 December 2015 by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Oxford Books of Prose & Verse' series.

Paperback / softback | 448 pages
198 x 130 x 26 | 326g

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.