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Swift, Daniel, 1977-
Subjects
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.
War poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Swift, Daniel, 1977-
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war.
War poetry, English -- History and criticism.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Bomber County : the poetry of a lost pilot's
war
/ Daniel Swift.
by
Swift, Daniel, 1977-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Call #:
821.914 S977b
Subjects
English poetry
--
20th century
--
History and criticism.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Great
Britain
--
Literature
and the
war
.
War
poetry, English
--
History and criticism.
Literature
and society
--
Great
Britain
--
History
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780374273316 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxvi, p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
A refusal to mourn
--
Five minutes after the air raid
--
It was not dying
--
B is for bombers
--
England and nowhere
--
The most beautiful city in the
world
--
The sadness of soldiers
--
Bomber poets
--
Icarus.
Summary:
"In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on M�nster and disappeared. Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second
World
War
what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new form of warfare, wretched and unexpected, and carried out at a terrible scale of loss. Just as the trenches produced the most remarkable poetry of the First
World
War
, so too did the bombing campaigns foster a haunting set of poems during the Second. In researching the life of his grandfather, Daniel Swift became engrossed with the connections between air
war
and poetry. Ostensibly a narrative of the authors search for his lost grandfather through military and civilian archives and in interviews conducted in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, Bomber County is also an examination of the relationship between the bombing campaigns of
World
War
II and poetry, an investigation into the experience of bombing and being bombed, and a powerful reckoning with the morals and
literature
of a vanished moment"--From publisher description.
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