Henry Sotheran's are proud to be hosting the launch of Max Egremont's new book
Some Desperate Glory
The First World War the Poets Knew
on
Thursday 8th May
6:00 - 8:00 pm
at
Henry Sotheran Limited
2 Sackville Street
Piccadilly
London
W1S 3DP
If you would like to join us here at
Sotheran's HQ this Thursday then please RSVP to Daisy via email: dt@sotherans.co.uk or telephone: 0207 439 6151
After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized
biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the
lives of the poets who fought at the front.
2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of
the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And
while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound
poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are
evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else.
The poets – many of whom were killed – show not only the war’s tragedy
but the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. In Some Desperate Glory,
historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at
the life and work of this assemblage of poets. Wilfred Owen with his
flaring genius; the intense, compassionate Siegfried Sassoon; the
composer Ivor Gurney; Robert Graves who would later spurn his war poems;
the nature-loving Edward Thomas; the glamorous Fabian Socialist Rupert
Brooke; and the shell-shocked Robert Nichols all fought in the war, and
their poetry is a bold act of creativity in the face of unprecedented
destruction.
Some Desperate Glory
will include a chronological anthology of their poems, with linking
commentary, telling the story of the war through their art. This unique
volume unites the poetry and the history of the war, so often treated
separately, granting readers the pride, strife, and sorrow of the
individual soldier’s experience coupled with a panoramic view of the
war’s toll on an entire nation.
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