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

Peter Howarth is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. His first book, British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (CUP, 2005) 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. More recently, he has published The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (CUP, 2011) and The Poetry Circuit (OUP, 2024)