Modernist War Poetry

Re-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetry Uniquely foregrounds the concept of ‘combat gnosticism’ bringing this influential thesis in war writing to bear on modernist studiesBrings together combatant war poetry and the ignored war poems of ‘home front’ poets into a single genealogical account that also contains a theory of the modernist long poemConsiders the work of a range of canonical modernists within a much broader artistic milieu than is the normRecovers several neglected p