| #5380175 in Books | 2003-12-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.44 x1.07 x6.44l,1.51 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| How we have dismantled the glory of war|By Paul Nelson|DISMANTLING GLORY works with the writings of real soldiers who made poetry from war. This book shows how soldiers attitudes toward the traditional glory of war has changed since the days of Byron and the residue of heraldry and heroism touted by "Chateau Generals" and upper class and college educated officers||Lorrie Goldensohn is a superb writer with an exemplary presence of mind. Her attention to the "largeness of literary being" she finds in the poetry of war is balanced by an extraordinary moral and historical wakefulness. Rigorous, open to surprise and terror,
Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms that by and large, twentieth-century war poetry is fundamentally antiwar. She examines the changing nature of the war lyric and takes on the literary thinking of two c...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Dismantling Glory | Lorrie Goldensohn. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
