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Introduction
Chapter Ⅰ
Poetry of British Classical Wars from National Formation to the English
Revolution (The Beginnings -1651)
1. Inventing National Genealogy in OId English War Poetry
Anonymous: Excerpts from Beowulf (c. the late 8h century)
Anonymous: Excerpts from The Battle of Brunanburh (937)
Anonymous: Excerpts from The Capture of the Five Boroughs (942)
Anonymous: Excerpts from The Battle of Maldon (991)
2. Legitimating Dominant Power in Medieval War Poetry
Layamon (the 12t century): Excerpts from Brut (c. 1190)
Anonymous: Excerpts from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1343–1400): Excerpts from The Knight's Tale
3. Secularizing Power in the English Renaissance War Poetry
Henry Howard (1517-1547): "An Epitaph on Clere, Surrey's Faithful Friend and
Follower
Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599): Excerpts from The Faerie Queene
Excerpts from Astrophel: A Pastorall Elegie
George Peele (1556–1596): Farewell to Arms to Queen Elizabeth"
Michael Drayton (1563–1631): Excerpts from The Battle of Agincourt
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593): Excerpts from Tamburlaine The Great
William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Excerpts from Henry V
4. Manipulation of Power in the Reformation and Revolution War Poetry
Sir William Davenant (1606–1668): "The Soldier Going to the Field"
John Milton (1608–1674): "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"
Richard Lovelace (1618–1657): "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from
Ireland
Chapter Ⅱ
War Poetry of the British Colonization (1651-1773)
1. The Fantasy of the State and Legitimacy of Colonization
John Dryden (1631–1700): Excerpts from Annus Mirabilis; To her Royal
Highness the Duchess
Charles Sackville (1638-1706): “Song Written at Sea in the First Dutch War, the
Night before an Engagement
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731): Excerpts from The True-born Englishman; Excerpts
from The Spanish Descent
Joseph Addison (1672–1719): Excerpts from The Campaign.
James Thomson (1700–1748): Rule, Britannia!
2. The Falsehood of Patriotism and Stigma of Colonizing Wars
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784): Excerpts from The Vanity of Human Wishes
3. Colonizers' Complexities and British Colonial American War Poetry
Benjamin Tompson (1642–1714): Excerpts from New Englands Crisis
Anonymous: Lovewell's Fight"; Anonymous: The Song of Braddock's Men"
Chapter Ⅲ
The Anglo-American War Poetry and the Age of Revolutions (1774-1830)
Chapter Ⅳ
War Poetry of British Imperialism (1830-1914).
Chapter Ⅴ
American War Poetry from Monroe Doctrine to the First World War
(1832-1918)
Chapter Ⅵ
Poetry of the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Chapter Ⅶ
British Poetry of the First World War (1914-1918)
Chapter Ⅷ
The Anglo-American Poetry of the Spanish Civil War
and World War Il (1918-1945)
Chapter Ⅸ
The Anglo-American War Poetry after World War Il (1945- )
Epilogue
Appendices
Bibliography
Index