The Poetry of Unease in the First World War: Heroes, Conflicts, Bodies, Values.
First World War poetry has often been stereotyped in the public imagination as protest poetry, but scholarship has shown that the poetry composed during the war varied in its perspectives. Protest poetry did become a feature, but its didacticism contrasts with the more nuanced poetry of unease that...
| Publicado en: | Journal of War & Culture Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 88 - 105 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2026
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