American War Poetry: An Anthology

Edited by Lorrie Goldensohn

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March, 2006
Cloth, 448 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13310-4
$35.00 / £24.00

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Colonial Wars, 1746–1763

The Revolutionary War, 1776–1783

The War of 1812

The Alamo and the Mexican-American War, 1836 and 1846–1848

The Civil War, 1861–1865

The Indian Wars, 1620–1911

The Spanish-American War, 1898

The War of the Philippines, 1899–1902

World War I, 1917–1918

The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

World War II, 1941–1945

The Korean War, 1950–1953

The Vietnam War, 1964–1975

El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf

Biographies in Brief

Index of Poems and Poem Titles

Permissions

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• Literary Studies
• Poetry

About the Author

Lorrie Goldensohn is most recently the author of Dismantling Glory: Twentieth-Century Soldier Poetry, which was nominated for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award. Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry received a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Her poetry and critical essays have appeared in journals and periodicals since 1965.

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