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A new edition of Jon Stallworthy´s acclaimed anthology marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Complete with a revised introduction and 42 new poems, the volume offers diverse account of war poetry from Homer´s The Iliad to poems written about the wars of the twenty-first century.

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There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy´s classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer´s Iliad, through the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the wars fought since. This new edition, published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, includes a new introduction additonal poems from David Harsent and Peter
Wyton amongst others. The new selection provides improved coverage of the two World Wars and the Vietnam War, and new coverage of the wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Review from previous edition Review from previous edition quite simply the most rewardingly catholic anthology of battle verse I know. Homer, Byron, Macauley, Hardy - and more recently, Keyes, Reed, Lewis, Douglas and Prince - they´re all here, plus an excellent brief essay of introduction. Times Educational Supplement

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Jon Stallworthy is a poet and Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many distinguished works of poetry, criticism, and translation. Among his books are critical studies of Yeats´s poetry, and prize-winning biographies of Louis MacNiece and Wilfred Owen (hailed by Graham Greene as ´one of the finest biographies of our time´). He is an editor of The Norton Anthology of English
Literature and of the definitive edition of Wilfred Owen´s poetry.

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