Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet: A New Life

by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Book Overview

Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoversihed Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as the age of 27. In Isaac Rosenberg, Wilson examines the influence of Rosenberg's class and heritage on his writings, as well as the development of his poetic technique. She traces his maturation from his childhood in Bristol...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810126044
• ISBN13: 9780810126046
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"