Isaac Rosenberg
The Making Of A Great War Poet
$46.22
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg’s ‘genius’ and T.S Eliot called him the ‘most extraordinary’ of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged only twenty-seven, his tragic early death resembling that of many other well-known poets of that conflict. But he differed from the majority of Great War poets in almost every other respect - race, class, education, upbringing, experience and technique. He was a skilled painter as well as a brilliant poet. The son of im…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753825778 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753825775 |
| Author: | Jean Moorcroft Wilson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 134mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
a compelling portrait of a poet who never lost his illusions about the war because he never had any in the first place
a compelling portrait of a poet who never lost his illusions about the war because he never had any in the first place - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Jean Moorcroft Wilson lectured in English at the University of Munich and is now a lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.
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