Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics

by Sarah Glidden, Danica Novgorodoff, Pat Mills, et al.

Book Overview

As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise, and its plainspoken condemnation of the senseless bloodshed of war, Trench Poetry soon became one of the most significant literary moments of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626720657
• ISBN13: 9781626720657
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: First Second
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"