Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew

by Max Egremont

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2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else.

The poets - many of whom were killed - show not only the war's tragedy but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets....

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  • ISBN10 0374535442
  • ISBN13 9780374535445
  • Publish Date 5 May 2015 (first published 8 May 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 352
  • Language English