The Urge to Tell It Backwards: The Contemporary Poet and the Great War.
At the start of the twenty-first century many poets are turning their focus again to the First World War as a subject, often 'revisiting' poems from the time and composing modern responses to them: an approach best seen in Carol Ann Duffy's edited collection 1914: Poetry Remembers (2013). In some ca...
| Publicado en: | Journal of War & Culture Studies Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 350 - 365 |
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