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Everything to Nothing - The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe (Hardcover)
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Everything to Nothing - The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe (Hardcover)
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The First World War changed the map of Europe forever. Empires
collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and
inspired the world. This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the
literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing. The
conflict opened up a vista of possibilities and tragedies for
poetic exploration, and at the same time poetry was a tool for
manipulating the sentiments of the combatant peoples. In Germany
alone during the first few months there were over a million poems
of propaganda published. We think of war poets as pacifistic
protestors, but that view has been created retrospectively. The
verse of the time, particularly in the early years of the
conflict-in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for
example-could find in the violence and technology of modern warfare
an awful and exhilarating epiphany. In this cultural history of the
First World War, the conflict is seen from the point of view of
poets and writers from all over Europe, including Rupert Brooke,
Anna Akhmatova, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gabriele D'Annunzio,
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Rainer Maria Rilke and Siegfried Sassoon.
Everything to Nothing is the award-winning panoramic history of how
nationalism and internationalism defined both the war itself and
its aftermath-revolutionary movements, wars for independence, civil
wars, the treaty of Versailles. It reveals how poets played a vital
role in defining the stakes, ambitions and disappointments of
postwar Europe.
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