Download or read book War Poems written by John Hollander and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer and Virgil to Byron and Yeats, from Shelley and Whitman to Auden and Stevens, from ancient China's anonymous bards to Poland's Mickiewicz and Israel's Amichai, poets of all times, places, and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. Here are more than one hundred of their most memorable poems, ranging from Horace on the Battle of Actium to Adrienne Rich's Vietnam-era "Newsreel." An extraordinary anthology.