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- Title
FOR EMPIRE, ENGLAND'S BOYS, AND THE PAGEANT OF WAR: WOMEN'S WAR POETRY IN THE YEAR OF THE SOMME.
- Authors
Murdoch, Brian
- Abstract
Three collections of war-poems by women writers (Margaret Sackville, Catherine Renshaw and Nadja Malacrida), published in the turning-point year 1916, raise questions about poetry by non-combatants who are also women. Sackville's pacifist writing has no overt patriotic elements, and although Renshaw retains some, the anti-war tone is becoming clearer; in spite of its title, Malacrida's now unknown collection focusses also upon the misery of the survivors. The ability to respond to the war is not gender- or experience-based, though some adopted voices are more appropriate to women. The collections share a sense of memorialization, in Sackville's case embracing all the dead, soldiers, non-combatants and refugees.
- Subjects
WOMEN poets; WORLD War I in literature; SACKVILLE, Margaret, Lady, 1881-1963; RENSHAW, Catherine; MALACRIDA, Nadja; PACIFISM in literature; MEMORIALIZATION
- Publication
English: The Journal of the English Association, 2009, Vol 58, Issue 220, p29
- ISSN
0013-8215
- Publication type
Literary Criticism