DLB 20: British Poets, 1914-1945

by Donald E. Stanford (Editor)

British poetry between 1914 and 1945 is marked by its growing Anglo-American character. This trend began before World War I with the imagist movement, but once the United States entered the war in 1917, Anglo-American cultural relations became increasingly close and friendly. World War I produced an impressive body of verse; the Depression, a decade later, spawned poetry that was more and more engaged with the social and political problems of their time; while World War II failed to stimulate the remarkable body of work brought on by the First World War. Most of the poets of the 1914-1945 period are individualists, some to the point of being called eccentrics-their work is represented in this DLB volume. 41 entries W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Elizabeth Daryush, C. Day Lewis, Roy Fuller, W. S. Graham, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Ruth Pitter, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 1983