Poets from Homer to Bruce Springsteen have given voice to the
intensity, horror, and beauty of war. The greatest war poets praise
the victor while mourning the victim; they honor the dead while
raising deep questions about the meaning of honor. Poets have given
memorable expression to the personal motives that send men forth to
fight: idealism, shame, comradeship, revenge. They have also helped
shape the larger ideas that nations and cultures invoke as
incentives for warfare: patriotism, religion, empire, chivalry,
freedom. The Poetry of War shows how poets have shaped and
questioned our basic ideas about warfare. Reading great poetry,
Winn argues, can help us make informed political judgments about
current wars. From the poems he discusses, readers will learn how
soldiers in past wars felt about their experiences, and why poets
in many periods and cultures have embraced war as a grand and
challenging subject.
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