war poetry, american

The author uses portions of the "Iliad" to reveal how the forms and processes of art memorialize the grief and loss of war, and uses the Vietnam Memorial and writings of Stephen Crane and other authors to illustrate his views.

Presents a study of the poetry written by Vietnam veterans during and after the war, and relates the horrors of the war and the physical and emotional traumas that occurred in a post-war America.

A comprehensive anthology of Civil War poetry by a number of noted poets including Henry David Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson; and contains an historical timeline listing major battles and events of the war.

An anthology of American war poetry written by soldiers, nurses, reporters, and civilians that covers four centuries from the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century to the Gulf Wars.

Presents an anthology of American war poetry, featuring nearly two hundred selections that comment on more than twelve wars, from the American Revolution to the twenty-first-century war on terrorism, including works by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Francis Scott Key, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Adrienne Rich, and others.

An anthology of the Vietnam generation written by combat soldiers and draft resisters, men and women, Asian and Native Americans, young and old and a variety of others.

Uses detailed analysis, factual contextual information, and historical documents to study the literature of World War II.

Presents a collection of poetry inspired by the conflict of the Civil War, and includes works by Longfellow, Whitman, Melville, and Sidney Lanier, among others.