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Poetry of the Empire

"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction by Oxford University

Sep 22, 201443:54Education

World War One was a conflict of empire, not of nation. In this lecture Dr Simon Featherstone looks at four distinctive poets who provide a version of empire that is much more nuanced than the imperial rhetoric of the est...

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