Research Catalog

Title

Coming out of war : poetry, grieving, and the culture of the world wars / Janis P. Stout.

Author

Stout, Janis P.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xxii, 270 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"While probing the work of such well-known poets as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, and Randall Jarrell, Janis P. Stout also highlights the impact of the World Wars on lesser studied but equally compelling sources, such as the music of Charles Ives, Cole Porter, Aaron Copeland, and Irving Berlin. She challenges the commonplace belief that war poetry came only from the battlefield and was written only by men examining the wartime writings of women poets such as Rose Macaulay, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Gwendolyn Brooks. She also challenges the assumption that World War II did not produce poetry of distinction by studying the work of John Ciardi, Karl Shapiro, Louis Simpson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. While emphasizing aesthetic continuity between the wars, Stout stresses that the poetry that emerged from each displays a greater variety than is usually recognized."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• World War, 1914-1918 > English-speaking countries > Literature and the war
• World War, 1939-1945 > English-speaking countries > Literature and the war
• Music > Great Britain > 20th century > History and criticism
• Music > United States > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• War poetry, American > History and criticism
• War poetry, English > History and criticism
• World War, 1914-1918 > Music and the war
• World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war
• Loss (Psychology) in literature
• Grief in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-260) and index.

Contents

1. Aspirations to heroism : the old that passed away -- 2. The new war poetry : the soldier poets -- 3. The great grief : women poets of World War I -- 4. Looking back on the Great War -- 5. Uneasy interlude : visions of the approach and renewal of war -- 6. Poetry and music enlist -- 7. Weariness and irony : a poetry of fact -- 8. Lament and protest : a poetry of reflection -- 9. Looking back on the "good war" -- 10. Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the hope of learning peace.

ISBN

0817314725 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004030748

OCLC

• ocm57414706
• SCSB-5204008

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries