War PoemsJohn Hollander Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999. okt. 12. - 256 oldal From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich's Vietnam-era "Newsreel." An extraordinary anthology. |
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Foreword | 11 |
HOMER A Pause in the Fighting | 25 |
HORACE Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria Mori | 40 |
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arms Army AUGUST STRAMM battle beneath blood blow Blue brave breath bullets burning Cæsar Carentan cloud Collected Poems colored soldiers Copyright Danny Deever dark dawn dead death deep dinky dust dying E. E. Cummings ears earth eyes face fell fight fire Flanders fields Flodden flowers forget fought GEORG TRAKL glory guns hand head hear heart Hinky horses JOHN HOLLANDER judgment day killed look Lord Madamoiselle from Armentiers Mai-ram-bo MARGOT HEINEMANN MIKHAIL LERMONTOV morning never night O'er parley voo peace rage Reprinted by permission RICHARD EBERHART Rouen round Sergeant shadow shell shining silent sing sleep smile smoke snow song soul sound stands stone stood storm strong swift sword thee Thom Gunn thou thousand TRANSLATED BY JOHN trumpet turned W. H. Auden Waiting the judgment waves weep wild willow wind wounded YEHUDA AMICHAI