Introduction

About the lecture

In this module, we provide a broad introduction to our discussion of the poetry of the First World War by thinking about the basic conflict between war and poetry. To what extent is it possible to capture the senseless chaos of war in the ordered rhymes and rhythms of poetry?

About the lecturer

Dr Peter Howarth came to Queen Mary in 2007, after lecturing at the University of Nottingham (2000-2007) and completing a PhD at Cambridge in 2000. His first book, British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (CUP, 2006) explored the poetics of non-modernism in the twentieth century, and his teaching and writing have continued to explore the relation of form, social setting and historical time ever since.