Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with
ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at
times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for
revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put
it, 'From humanity via nationality to bestiality'. National Poetry,
Empires and War considers national poetry, and its glorification of
war, from ancient to modern times, in a series of historical,
social and political perspectives. Starting with the Hebrew Bible
and Homer and moving through the Crusades and examples of
subsequent empires, this book has much on pre-modern national
poetry but focuses chiefly on post-1789 poetry which emerged from
the weakening and collapse of empires, as the idealistic liberalism
of nationalism in the age of Byron, Whitman, D'Annunzio, Yeats,
Bialik, and Kipling was replaced by darker purposes culminating in
World War I and the rise of fascism. Many national poets are the
subject of countless critical and biographical studies, but this
book aims to give a panoramic view of national poetry as a whole.
It will be of great interest to any scholars of nationalism, Jewish
Studies, history, comparative literature, and general cultural
studies.
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