The Old, Bad Civilisation
Arnold Rattenbury: Second World War poetry, 4 October 2001
Selected Poems
by Randall Swingler, edited by Andy Croft.
Trent, 113 pp., £7.99, October 2000,1 84233 014 4 Show More
by Randall Swingler, edited by Andy Croft.
Trent, 113 pp., £7.99, October 2000,
British Writing of the Second World War
by Mark Rawlinson.
Oxford, 256 pp., £35, June 2000,0 19 818456 5 Show More
by Mark Rawlinson.
Oxford, 256 pp., £35, June 2000,
“... of pauses and political aspiration alike as descending directly from the same qualities in Patrick Hamilton; John Arden’s cascades of language and desire from O’Casey’s; or, to take an American example, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 from the savagery of Ring Lardner’s The Ecstasy of Owen Muir. Small wonder that writers from Robert Graves to Noel Coward to ... ”