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8. Was there a Scottish War Literature? Scotland, Poetry,
   andthe First World War 153
   David Goldie


9. War Poetry, or the Poetry of War? Isaac Rosenberg,
   David Jones, Ivor Gurney 174
   Vivien Noakes


10. The Great War and Modernist Poetry 190

Vincent Sherry

11. A War of Friendship: Robert Graves and Siegfried
    Sassoon 208
    Fran Brearton


12. ‘Easter, 1916’: Yeats’s First World War Poem 227

Marjorie Perloff

PART III ENTRE DEUX GUERRES

13. ‘What the dawn will bring to light’: Credulity and
    Commitment in the Ideological Construction of ‘Spain’ 245
    Stan Smith


14. Unwriting the Good Fight: W. H. Auden’s ‘Spain 1937’ 264

Rainer Emig

15. War, Politics, and Disappearing Poetry: Auden, Yeats,
    Empson 279
    John Lyon

PART IV THE SECOND WORLD WAR

16. ‘Others have come before you’: The Influence of Great
    War Poetry on Second World War Poets 299
    Dawn Bellamy


17. ‘Death’s Proletariat’: Scottish Poets of the Second
    World War 315
    Roderick Watson