Author: Bolton, Jonathan
Title: Personal Landscapes: British Poets in Egypt during the Second World War
Description: New York, St. Martin's Press, (1997). orig.boards. 22x14cm, xix,187 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Prologue: Under Western Eyes: Orientalism, Hybridity, & the Case of the 'Personal Landscape' Poets; 'Personal Landscape' & British Poetry in the 1940s; Lyric Totals: "The Skull Beneath the Skin": The Truth About War; "Rituals of Endurance": Poetry & the Exile Backround; Personal Landscape(s): "The Historian with His Spade": Landscape & Historical Continuity in the Poetry of Bernard Spencer; Durrell Rampant / Durrell Passant: The Landscape of the Heraldic Universe; "The Polarity of Personal Cities": Identity & the Neoclassical Landscape in the Poetry of G.S. Fraser; "Monuments & Metal Posies": Keith Douglas's 'Book of the Dead'; Postscript: 'Personal Landscape' & British Poetry since the Second World War.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, British Poetry, Personal Landscape, War Poetry Poets, Second World War, Egypt, ,