ABSTRACT

The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb.

chapter 1|21 pages

Good War Poetry?

chapter 2|41 pages

We Hate As One

Poems of the First World War

chapter 3|36 pages

When This Bleeding War is Over

Songs of the First World War

chapter 4|35 pages

Tomorrow the Whole World

Fascism and the lyric

chapter 5|41 pages

There is No Need for Alarm

Poems of the Allies, 1939–45

chapter 6|34 pages

My Lilli of the Lamplight

Songs of the Second World War

chapter 7|18 pages

World War Three Blues

The Lyric and August 1945