American War Poetry: An Anthology - Image 1

£37.78

Columbia University Press American War Poetry: An Anthology

Name: American War Poetry: An Anthology
Brand: Columbia University Press
Price: 37.78 GBP
Availability: InStock

Poetry & Poets

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

£38 today · usual range £31–£44 · best ever £31

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 35 days • 35 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 35 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £44 (22 days, 62.9%)

Price range: £31 - £44

Price levels: 3 different prices over 35 days

Description

American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on "minor" conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-American Wars. This compact anthology has generous selections on the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War, but it also includes an unusually large offering on American participation in the Spanish Civil War. Another section covers four hundred years of conflict with Native Americans, ending with poems by contemporary Indians who respond passionately and directly to their difficult history. The collection also reaches into current reaction to American involvement in Latin America, Bosnia, and the Gulf Wars. Showing the depth of feeling and the range of thinking with which Americans have confronted war, American War Poetry expands our sense of what poetry is made to do. While the birth of a national identity is documented in early poems, the anthology also conveys the growing sophistication of a uniquely American style. Although early war poems show that the first justification for war was purely defensive, as American global ambitions matured, American writers moved increasingly to deplore a homegrown imperialism and its terrible costs. While many familiar poems of patriotic ardor have been chosen, other poems show a steady interest in antiwar themes. Lorrie Goldensohn provides a brief biography for each poet and places each poem in its proper literary and historical context. Comprehensive and compelling, American War Poetry not only documents the birth and development of a national style of expression but shows the force of poetry working on the historical moment, making it come vitally alive.

Product Specifications

Brand: Columbia University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0231133103
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Poetry & Poets
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 March 2006
Listed Since: 07 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Columbia University Press American War Poetry: An Anthology

This is the usual price. Wait for it to drop, or tell us your number.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Encyclopedia of American War Literature

World War I (Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century)

Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War (Historical Urban Studies Series)

Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756-1763): Ein Europäischer Weltkrieg Im Zeitalter Der Aufklärung

Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War (Cass Military Studies)

An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics

Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare

Modern Law of Land Warfare

Global Maritime Military Strategy, 1980–2023: Taikoku Wa Umi De Donoyoni Tatakaunoka

Supreme Leadership in Modern War: Civil-Military Relations During Competition and War (Cass Military Studies)

Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II

State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011 (Modern War Studies)

Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America's Public Schools

Routledge British Generalship during the Great War - Sir Henry Horne

Encyclopedia of American History (Facts on File Library of American History)

Latin American Positivism: New Historical and Philosophic Essays

The British Way in Warfare: Power and the International System, 1856–1956: Essays in Honour of David French

American Writers and World War I

Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793–1822 (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Social and Cultural Dynamics: A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships (Social Science Classics)

Great Power Strategy in Asia: Empire, Culture and Trade, 1905-2005

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader)

In Time of War – Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq (Chicago Studies in American Politics)