Dismantling Glory - Twentieth Century Soldier Poetry

List of Illustrations ix Preface: A Preliminary xi Acknowledgments xv 1. The Dignities of Danger Dismantling Glory 5(3) Far with the Brave We Have Ridden 8(10) The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity 18(7) The Boundaries of War 25(6) "Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against" 31(5) The Troubled Stream 36(6) 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" 42(41) Introduction: The Fellowship of Death 42(8) "One must see and feel" 50(14) "The pity of War" 64(19) 3. W.H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" 83(35) England's Auden 85(16) Where the War Poets Were 101(17) 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale 118(56) "Simplify me when I'm dead" 119(25) "The glorious bran tub" 144(15) "Bête Noire" 159(15) 5. Randall Jarrell's War 174(61) The Particulars of the Poem 181(18) "He learns to fight for freedom and the State" 199(13) A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind 212(10) "Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can" 222(10) "A fresh visionary tension" 232(3) 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War 235(106) "Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well" 235(1) Winning Hearts and Minds 236(24) Carrying the Darkness 260(10) Beautiful Wreckage 270(19) "Brothers in the Nam" 289(8) Men and Women and Women 297(32) Raids on Homer 329(12) Notes 341(4) Works Cited 345(10) Index 355(14) Further Acknowledgments 369