Fighting Songs and Warring Words: Popular Lyrics of Two World Wars

ISBN-13: 9780415031844 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 302 str.

Brian Murdoch;Murdoch Brian

Opis

The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.

Spis treści

1 GOOD WAR POETRY? 2 WE HATE AS ONE: POEMS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 3 WHEN THIS BLEEDING WAR IS OVER: SONGS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 4 TOMORROW THE WHOLE WORLD: FASCISM AND THE LYRIC 5 THERE IS NO NEED FOR ALARM: POEMS OF THE ALLIES, 1939–45 6 MY LILLI OF THE LAMPLIGHT: SONGS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR 7 WORLD WAR THREE BLUES: THE LYRIC AND AUGUST 1945

O autorze

Murdoch, Brian