The New Oxford Book of War Poetry [Paperback]

There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer'sIliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction and additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter Wyton, among others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Enables one to see quite clearly the significant societal changes taking place in the perception of war and its place in the human imagination. Highly recommended. --CHOICE

Reviews of previous edition

This collection is of exceptionally high quality. --Washington Post

Quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy--and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince--they're all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. --Times Educational Supplement

A marvellous collection of old favorites and many surprises. --The Star

Full of good things... [M]any old favorites and quite a few genuine surprises. --Vernon Scannell,The Guardian

This is an anthology that works in a way that the work of no single poet could. --The Observer

Jon Stallworthyis a poet and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many distinguished works of poetry, criticism, and translation. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats's poetry, and prize-winning biographies of Louis MacNiece and Will1