$19.61
To the War Poetsā
$19.61
The Story
In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: āNo larks, / just the passing of traffic.ā Greening explores āEnglishnessā, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forcesā shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greeningās precise, unsentimental writing.
Description
In To the War Poets John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: āNo larks, / just the passing of traffic.ā Greening explores āEnglishnessā, but also, in his translations from German poets, goes beyond it. From the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial in 1939 to the security forcesā shut-down of Heathrow airport in 2006, the presence or threat of conflict underlies Greeningās precise, unsentimental writing.
