Muse of Fire
World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation-destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England-and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives. In a sweeping narrative that echoes The Guns of August, Korda recounts these four years of a civilization destroying itself and portrays the lives and anguished deaths of the young men who unforgettably illuminated it. As the success of Pat Barker's Regeneration, the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front and the images of brutal trench warfare in today's Ukraine demonstrate, contemporary interest in "the war to end war" remains high.
Autor: | Korda, Michael |
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ISBN: | 9781631496882 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Verlag: | W. W. Norton & Company |
Veröffentlicht: | 21.06.2024 |
Untertitel: | World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets |
Schlagworte: | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures Biography: literary Biography: writers First World War HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) POETRY / Subjects & Themes / War Poetry c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period) c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
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