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Heroes' Twilight

by Bernard Bergonzi

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When this text was first published in 1965, it offered radical perspectives on the poetry, fiction and autobiographical writing of World War I. It mapped an area of literature which remains challenging and painfully fresh despite later carnage in the 20th century, challenging because of the quality of the writers who served, and because attitudes altered so fundamentally during its four traumatic years.… (more)
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852 Heroes' Twilight: a Study of the Literature of the Great War, by Bernard Bergonzi (read 14 May 1966) This is a study of English writing emanating from World War I. Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That is called an "undoubted English autobiographical masterpiece of the war." Bergonzi seems to feel Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End is the top fiction to come out of the war from England. Frederic Manning's Her Private We also appears worth reading. While he devotes a chapter to In Parenthesis by David Jones, I doubt 'twould be worthwhile for me to read it. Poignant for me is this from Vernon Scannell's "The Great War":
And now,
Whenever the November sky
Quivers with a bugle's coarse, sweet cry,
The reason darkens, in its evening gleam
Crosses and flares, tormented wire, grey earth,
Splattered with crimson flowers,
And I remember,
Not the war I fought in
But the one called Great
Which ended in a sepia November
Four years before my birth." ( )
  Schmerguls | Jun 12, 2010 |
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When this text was first published in 1965, it offered radical perspectives on the poetry, fiction and autobiographical writing of World War I. It mapped an area of literature which remains challenging and painfully fresh despite later carnage in the 20th century, challenging because of the quality of the writers who served, and because attitudes altered so fundamentally during its four traumatic years.

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