Thesis
A study of the response of English poets to the South African War of 1899-1902
- Abstract:
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This thesis examines the controversial South African War's influence on English poetry, highlighting the individual responses of established poets and drawing on the work of numerous minor verse-writers to define the changing tradition of 'patriotic' and 'war' poetry.
Chapter I sketches the historical and social background, noting how events in South Africa assumed great magnitude for contemporaries whose popular Imperialism was severely tried and who made an unprecedented national...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1979
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602344847 and 602344846
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602344846
- Deposit date:
- 2014-07-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Gasser, Brian
- Copyright date:
- 1979
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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