The Red Sweet Wine of Youth.

By Nicholas Murray

Printed: 2010

Publisher: Little Brown. London

Edition: First edition

Dimensions 17 × 24 × 3.5 cm
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Language: English

Size (cminches): 17 x 24 x 3.5

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In the original dustsheet. Red cloth binding with black title on the spine.

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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 men’s indissoluble comradeship, their complex sexual mores and their extraordinary courage. Poignant, vivid, and unfailingly intelligent, Nicholas Murray’s study offers new and finely tuned insight into the – often devastatingly brief – lives of a remarkable generation of men.

Review: Everyone knows of Owen and Sassoon and Brooke; but unless you have a special interest in the subject you may not be aware of Rosenberg or Jones or Hulme. What this book does is put the poetry of the first world war into context. It adds more nuance to the general understanding of these writers. Sassoon is often seen as a pacifist, but this is to fail to grasp his perspective on the war. Murray contests that what these writers were opposed to was the traditional literature of war, all the dulce et decorum est. It is a study of the impact on the war on literary sensibilities, as manifested in Owen, Sassoon etc., and of its impact on the post-war world. Anyone who has ever been stirred by the poetry they have read should buy this book as it is the best intoduction to the subject of ” war and the pity of war”.

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