Heroes’ Twilight. A Study Of The Literature Of The Great War.
£15.00
Publisher
Constable.
Place
London
Date
1965
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches. 235 pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt. A little wear at base of spine, but otherwise a very good copy. A well researched and influential survey of the literature of the First World War. Chapters cover the poets, civilian responses, autobiography and fiction, concluding with a study of In Parenthesis by David Jones and a chapter on Henry Williamson. Bernard Bergonzi (1929-2016) was a literary scholar, critic an poet, who taught at Manchester, before moving to the University of Warwick, where he became Professor of English in 1971. Two later editions of this title were published. (Bernard Bergonzi Obituary, The Guardian 27 September 2016).
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