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A review by booksnpunks
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew by Max Egremont
3.0
This was an enlightening book, focusing on eleven of the First World War poets and collectively telling their story year by year, and also adding a chapter on "Aftermath" to discuss the posthumous fame of some of the writers, and also the poems written by people who didn't experience the war.
Dispersed through-out is also a collection of the writer's most famous and important poems, making this a half-anthology-half-biography. This was nice, as you were able to link the work with what was happening to each soldier at each point in his life.
I enjoyed Egremont's work, and am excited to pick up his biography on Siegfried Sassoon.
Dispersed through-out is also a collection of the writer's most famous and important poems, making this a half-anthology-half-biography. This was nice, as you were able to link the work with what was happening to each soldier at each point in his life.
I enjoyed Egremont's work, and am excited to pick up his biography on Siegfried Sassoon.