The Red Sweet Wine Of Youth. The Brave And Brief Lives Of The War Poets

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Little Brown
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 343 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political manifesto and literary beacon for the twentieth century. In this passionate recreation of the lives of the greatest poets to come out of the conflict, Nicholas Murray brilliantly reveals the men themselves as well as the struggle of the artist to live fully and to bear witness in the annihilating squalor of battle. Bringing into sharp focus the human detail of each life, using journals, letters and literary archives, Murray brings to life the mens indissoluble comradeship, their complex sexual mores and their extraordinary courage. Poignant, vivid and unfailingly intelligent, Nicholas Murrays study offers new and finely tuned insight into the - often devastatingly brief - lives of a remarkable generation of men.

ISBN: 9781408700044