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FROM EMMANUEL TO THE SOMME
THE WAR WRITINGS OF A.E.TOMLINSON |
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A.E. Tomlinson, Michael Copp (Editor), Michael Copp |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0718829638 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780718829636 |
| Publisher: |
JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 February, 1997 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Albert Ernest Tomlinson is regarded as having claimed the middle-ground of war literature, between the vision of patrician poets and the perspective of ordinary soldiers. This collection of his work demonstrates his combination of awareness of social realism with an educated literary sensibility. |
| Synopsis: |
Albert Ernest Tomlinson was a northern grammar-school boy who studied Modern Languages at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before going on to fight in World War I. The war quickened his artistic talent, and he produced a range of work, including war poems published shortly after the Armistice. Claiming the literary middle-ground between the vision of the patrician poets and the perspective of ordinary soldiers, he combined an awareness of social realism with an educated literary sensibility. This compilation brings together a collection of his war writings. The memoir "The Wound Stripe, but No VC" provides powerful first-hand accounts of life in the trenches, while many of the poems reveal a bitter satire. Tomlinson's letters from the front reveal a complex and engaging character besides providing a counter to the propaganda of the time and describing - or demonstrating the impossibility of describing - the soldier's true experience. The play "The Burning Boche" is light-hearted, but contains in its central act, a striking portrayal of trench life, vividly realising the black humour of the soldiers and the confusion of action in No-Mans's-Land.Appendices include a sampling of verse from other periods of Tomlinson's life; some propaganda produced for the War Office and his venomous reaction to an encounter with Rupert Brooke. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Lutterworth Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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