The First World War was the only war where literature played a major part in forming society's perception of it, so much so that the phrase 'war poets' is now taken to mean the poets of the First World War.
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Release
March 01, 1996
ISBN
0850524504
ISBN 13
9780850524505
The Price of Pity: Poetry, History and Myth in the Great War
The First World War was the only war where literature played a major part in forming society's perception of it, so much so that the phrase 'war poets' is now taken to mean the poets of the First World War.