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Pacifism and English Literature

Minstrels of Peace

R. White

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Palgrave Macmillan UK img Link Publisher

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen

Beschreibung

This timely book traces ideas of pacifism in English literature, particularly poetry. Early chapters, drawing on religious and secular traditions, provide intellectual contexts. There follows a chronological analysis of literature which rejects war and celebrates peace, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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Romanticism, prose, poetry, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Ovid, English literature, British and Irish Literature, William Shakespeare