Modern English War Poetry
Tim Kendall
Published:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780191707636
Print ISBN:
9780199562022
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Modern English War Poetry
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This chapter explores the war poetry of Ted Hughes. War is the abiding concern of Hughes's poetry. As a teenager beginning to write in the early 1940s, he viewed contemporary conflict through the lens of the past, and the fear that his elder brother's war would prove as terrible as their father's became his ‘permanent preoccupation’. His post-war poetic maturity continued to perceive experience through that lens: Hughes characterizes his poems as ‘battleground[s]’ where his imagination, excited by ‘the war between vitality and death’, celebrates ‘the exploits of the warriors of either side’.
Keywords: Ted Hughes, war poetry, war poets
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Literary Studies (20th Century onwards) Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets)
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