The Ocean Bards: British Poetry and the War at Sea, 1793-1815

by H George Hahn

Long before Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's novels of the great age of combat sail, a vast popular poetry abounded in Britain about the war at sea against the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. This book tells the story of how that poetry, with its sailors and admirals as folk heroes, became a driving force for morale, national identity and patriotism that would flourish until 1918. Focusing on the sea poetry of Britain during that twenty-two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631335695
• ISBN13: 9783631335697
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"