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List of Contributors xi

Introduction 1

Tim Kendall

PART I BEGINNINGS

1. Fighting Talk: Victorian War Poetry 7
   Matthew Bevis


2. ‘Graver things...braver things’: Hardy’s War Poetry 34
   Ralph Pite


3. From Dark Defile to Gethsemane: Rudyard Kipling’s
   War Poetry 51
   Daniel Karlin

PART II THE GREAT WAR

4. War Poetry and the Realm of the Senses: Owen and
   Rosenberg 73
   Santanu Das


5. ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’: The Women Poets of
   the First World War 100
   Stacy Gillis


6. Wilfred Owen 114
   Mark Rawlinson


7. Shakespeare and the Great War 134
   John Lee