[.uk] Old Glory: American War Poems from the Revolutionary War ... (ISBN 0892553103)

Book Description:
For the first time, in one volume, the rich canon of American war poems, from "Yankee Doodle" to Robert Creeley's "Ground Zero." This unique, comprehensive anthology gathers together more than two hundred poems about the American experience of war—narratives, meditations, elegies, lamentations, odes, tributes, and battle hymns—many of them classics. Written by soldier-poets as well as poets on the home front, they are deeply personal, reflecting love of country, sacrifice, tragedy, glory, and sometimes disillusionment or dissent. Arranged chronologically, virtually every conflict is included: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, September 11, and the present war in Iraq. Among the 140 poets are Longfellow, Wheatley, Dunbar, Bryant, Emerson, Thoreau, Crane, Dickinson, Melville, Whitman, Whittier, Masters, Bogan, Lindsay, Cummings, Eliot, Frost, Lowell, Pound, Sandburg, Bishop, Hughes, Levertov, Stevens, Williams, Bly, Creeley, Ginsberg, Harper, Paley, Rich, Warren, Komunyakaa, Weigl, and Collins. A major historical, cultural, and literary volume, Old Glory speaks from the depth of time as well as from the immediacy of our own moment.

The legacy of American war poetry efforts:
News commentator Walter Cronkite provides the foreword to Robert Hedin's fine Old Glory: American War Poems From The Revolutionary War To The War On Terrorism, the first comprehensive collection of American war poetry presenting 200 poems from over a hundred American poets. The legacy of American war poetry efforts is established in Cronkite's forward, providing a fitting introduction to a literary legacy which includes narratives, lamentations, tributes, protests, battle hymns and more. The organization by conflict allows scholars to easily pick the section which applies to their studies, making Old Glory a pick for both leisure and scholarly audiences alike.