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Title: Scars Upon My Heart
Condition: New
EAN: 9781844082254
ISBN: 9781844082254
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 09/02/2006
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 132mm
Item Width: 13mm
Item Weight: 137g
Author: Catherine Reilly
Contributor: Catherine Reilly (Edited by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
ISBN-10: 1844082253
Description:

Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows, for example, that women were writing protest poetry before Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, and that the view of 'the women at home', ignorant and idealistic, was quite false.

Many of these poems come out of direct experiences of nursing the victims of trench warfare, or the pain of lovers, brothers, sons lost. Poets include: Nancy Cunard, Rose Macaulay, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, Edith Nesbit, Edith Sitwell, Marie Stopes, Katharine Tynan. Here, as elsewhere, 'the poetry is in the pity' - a moving record of women's experience of war.

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