Full name: The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945

Author: Brian Gardner Year: 1966 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780413150103 0413150100

The poetry of World War II has often been dismissed as inferior to that of World War I. This book shows how wrong that assessment is. The Terrible Rain, a companion volume to Brian Gardner's anthology of the poetry of World War I, Up the Line to Death, has established itself as a classic collection of poetry of World War II. From the outbreak of war, through the Blitz, to fighting on land, sea, and in the air, the poems mirror each phase of action in every theater from the front line to the Home Front. An outstanding record of the time, the volume includes poems by W. H. Auden, William Plomer, Edith Sitwell, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Keith Douglas, Laurie Lee, and many others. The overall quality of the poetry shows a remarkable maturity of response and is an extraordinary record of the spirit of their time. Similar books: 180 More by Billy Collins Till I End My Song by Harold Bloom Poetry 180 by Billy Collins A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz Good Poems by Garrison Keillor Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor An Introduction to Poetry by X. J. Kennedy Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets by Hugh Maclean The Black Poets by Dudley Randall Palgrave's Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave Great American Prose Poems by David Lehman The Metaphysical Poets by Helen Louise Gardner Legitimate Dangers by Michael Dumanis The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Crush by Richard Siken Citizen by Claudia Rankine Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell