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Soldiers don't go mad, a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War, Charles Glass

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Soldiers don't go mad, a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War, Charles Glass

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Soldiers don't go mad

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bibliography

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1379844647

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Charles Glass

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a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War

Summary

"A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen was twenty-four years old when he was admitted to the newly established Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatment of shell shock. A bourgeoning poet, trying to make sense of the terror he had witnessed, he read a collection of poems from a fellow officer, Siegfried Sassoon, and was impressed by his portrayal of the soldier's plight. One month later, Sassoon himself arrived at Craiglockhart, having refused to return to the front after being wounded during battle. Though Owen and Sassoon differed in age, class, education, and interests, both were outsiders - as soldiers unfit to fight, as gay men in a homophobic country, and as Britons unwilling to support a war likely to wipe out an entire generation of young men. But more than anything else, they shared a love of the English language, and its highest expression of poetry. As their friendship evolved over their months as patients at Craiglockhart, each encouraged the other in their work, in their personal reckonings with the morality of war, as well as in their treatment. Therapy provided Owen, Sassoon, and fellow patients with insights that allowed them express themselves better, and for the 28 months that Craiglockhart was in operation, it notably incubated the era's most significant developments in both psychiatry and poetry"--, Provided by publisher

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Story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World WarSoldiers do not go mad

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