Excerpts from distinctive poems illustrate the author's appreciation of the metrical and formal aspects of poetry

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Literature & Fiction

Fussell, Paul.

Literary

McGraw=Hill

“Fresh, alert, commanding and likely to be a landmark in 18th century studies. . . .Readers who care about English literature will relish this lucid, often controversial re-examination.” ―Book-of-the-Month-Club News Not everyone is as innocent as this engaging complainant. Most people who read know something about Johnson, enough at least to summon up images of him asseverating “No, Sir,” knocking back endless cups of tea, rambling over the Hebrides, puffing out his breath like a whale, repressing Boswell, standing bareheaded in Uttoxeter Market, and having a frisk with Beauclerk and Langton. And now, thanks to the Johnsonians of Yale, Columbia, Oxford, and Lichfield, our knowledge of the man and his social environment has increased more than anyone fifty years ago could have imagined. But despite prodigies of research and documentation, an interest in Johnson that could be called literary has been wanting. One suspects that for every hundred persons familiar with the classic Johnson anecdotes there is perhaps only one who has actually read the Rambler or the Idler or even the Lives of the Poets. And if the writings are still little read for their own sake, they are almost as little written about as attractive objects of criticism. Yale’s new edition of the writings, the first since the early nineteenth century, is an occasion to perceive that for all his value as conversational goad and wit and for all his attractiveness as a moral and religious hero, Johnson’s identity remains stubbornly that of a writer.

Samuel Johnson : The Life of Writing

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

In this classic work Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which the Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this award-winning volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of an event that revolutionized the way we see the world. This book is intended for students, historians, andgeneral readers interested in the history of the Great War and its literature.

The Great War and Modern Memory

Oxford University Press

Distinguishing the art of travel from today's tourism, this nostalgic, controversial study eulogizes the final age of travel between 1918 and 1939 in the fascinating context of British travel writings

Abroad : British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

History & Criticism

In this classic work, Paul Fussell illuminates the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing primarily on the literary means by which The Great War has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized. Drawing on the work of important wartime poets such as David Jones and Wilfred Owen, on the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, and on numerous other personal records housed in the Imperial War Museum, this award-winning volume provides an intimate and intensely poetic account of the event that revolutionized the way we see the world. It has been hailed as "humanly wise and compassionate" (Saturday Review), "original and brilliant" (Lionel Trilling), "bright and sensitive" (The New Yorker), and "probing, sympathetic, and illuminating" (The New Republic). It is an undisputed classic of cultural criticism.

History

Military

Fussell vividly explores the British experience on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, focusing on the various literary means by which it has been remembered, conventionalized, and mythologized.

British & Irish

Distinguishing the art of travel from today's tourism, this nostalgic, controversial study eulogizes the final age of travel between 1918 and 1939 in the fascinating context of British travel writings

Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

284 pages of fascinating insight and humor such as " A scout does not bomb and invade a neutral country, and then lie about it".

The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

United States

A collection of literary, cultural, social, ethical, and political commentary by the noted critic explores a wide range of diverse topics, events, activities, objects, and beliefs

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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

Samuel Johnson : The Life of Writing

The Great War and Modern Memory

Abroad : British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

The Great War and Modern Memory

The Great War and Modern Memory

Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars

The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations

The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations