Out of Battle by Jon Silkin
This guide to the Great War poets and their work explores the variety of responses from Rupert Brook, Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas to the events they witnessed. Other poets discussed are Hardy, Kipling, Charles Sorely, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Read, Richard Aldington and David Jones.
Jon Silkin was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds. He founded Stand magazine in 1952 and the Northern House Press in 1965. His publications included nine volumes of poetry and many critical works and anthologies. He held writing fellowships and chairs in the United States, Australia, and Japan. Jon Glover is the managing editor of Stand magazine and is a research professor at the University of Bolton. He is the author of two books of poetry, Glass Is Elastic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and edited The Penguin Book of First World War Prose with Jon Silkin. Kathryn Jenner has worked as an archivist at the University of Leeds's Brotherton Library, where she catalogued the Jon Silkin archive and the poetry and notebooks of Geoffrey Hill.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780744800661 |
| ISBN 10 | 0744800668 |
| Title | Out of Battle |
| Author | Jon Silkin |
| Series | Ark Paperbacks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 1987-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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