The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War by Davies, Simon

The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499603590)

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The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War by Davies, Simon

The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War

$16.00
The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War by Davies, Simon

The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the First World War

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg ... so many names that have become inextricably linked to the vast output of poetry that accompanied the First World War. In the midst of the harsh realities of battle, why did so many feel the need to put pen to paper and express themselves in verse? And what sort of legacy do these writings leave us today as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914, a war that caused the deaths of millions of civilians and military personnel? This work provides a general overview of those poems written on the war fronts at sea, in the air and on land, and, more particularly, in the trenches, in an attempt to answer these questions.The title of the book is derived from the final line of Siegfried Sassoon

Author: Simon Davies
ISBN-10: 1499603592
ISBN-13: 9781499603590
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/26/2014
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.35d
By Simon Davies
By Simon Davies
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Simon Davies is a graduate from the University of Bristol in the UK with a first-class joint honours Bachelor's degree in French and Latin. After graduating in 1992, he moved to France to teach English as a Foreign Language. Whilst studying for a one-year Master's Degree in English literature at the University of Valenciennes, he became interested in the poetry of the First World War, which led him to write a dissertation on the subject. He has been teaching English for over 20 years in schools, colleges, universities and industry. He is currently a "Professeur agrégé" in English (specialising in Professional English) and Head of Languages at the Ecole Centrale de Lille, a graduate school ("Grande Ecole") in multi-disciplinary engineering.

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