Strange Meetings The Poets Of The Great War by Harry Ricketts

"Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914 -1919, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when are both in hospital at the same time, on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932, and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk'of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets and writers we encounter are Vera Brittain and Edward Leighton, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Nicols and Edmund Blunden. Ricketts's unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships, marking their responses to each other's work and showing how these affected their own poetry.... "--Publisher's description.

Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Year:	2010
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780701172718
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	DJ. Small tear to top and bottom of DJ at the spine.

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SKU: 1588965
Location: Books About Books