Continuities and Disjunctions
Investigating British Poetry Anthologies of the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914560 |
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| Authors | Philippa Lyon (0000-0002-2300-400X, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-214 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1752627213z.00000000018 |
| OpenAlex | W1967542569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The article presents an analysis of the marginal cultural positioning of Britsh Second World War poetry by contrast with that of the First World War. It considers this positioning in the context both of longstanding cultural interest in historical and dramatic representations of the 1939-45 war and the extensive post-war use of war poetry in British education and commemorative practices. Taking processes of editorial selection and organization as an additional layer of meaning-making to that of the poetry itself, it briefly identifies taxonomical groupings within the large and varied corpus of war poetry anthologies published during and after the Second World War. An account of the post-war reactions to and constructions of this work is given and the article concludes with the argument that such work represents a rich, important and under-appreciated resource for the understanding of Second World War literature and culture
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Civilization · First world war · Literature · Period (music · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Value (mathematics · World War II · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Highly cited | No |
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