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Drummer hodge - The poetry of the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) (Hardcover, 2nd ed)
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Drummer hodge - The poetry of the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) (Hardcover, 2nd ed)
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The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, fought between the pride of the
British Empire at the height of its world-wide power and two small
rural republics at the tip of Africa, provoked remarkably vehement
reactions not only in Britain, but all round the world. Much of
this reaction was expressed in verse, most of it subliterary, but
some of it such as Hardy’s ‘Drummer Hodge’, putting forward a view
of war more akin to Owen’s ‘Futility’ than Tennyson’s ‘The Change
of the Light Brigade’. The first chapter of Drummer Hodge traces
the growth of pacifist attitudes to war and the compassionate
treatment of soldiering in the course of the nineteenth century.
Subsequent chapters deal with the imperial theme (much questioned
at this time) in Boer War verse; the contributions of writers such
as Newbolt, Hardy, Kipling, and AE Housman, as well as that of
numerous soldier poets; the effect of the war on the literature of
the Boers; Boer war poetry from the United States and the rest of
the English-speaking world; and the literary results of the
enormous pro-Boer movement in France, Germany and Holland:
countries in which the Boer republics were seen as images of a
rural simplicity and patriarchal integrity lost in Europe. The work
is based on research completed over many years in libraries in
South Africa, Britain, France, Germany and Holland, and constitutes
an exercise in the comparative history of nineteenth-century
English and European war poetry on a scale probably not attempted
before.
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