Artistry & authenticity in the war sonnets of John Allan Wyeth
Bradley Omanson
For anyone with a particular interest in the poetry of the First World War, I would very much appreciate feedback (on-list for general issues, or off-list otherwise) on an in-depth paper on the American war poet John Allan Wyeth. This essay is tentatively slated to appear in a new American WWI journal later this year.
The paper, 'Artistry and authenticity in the war sonnets of John Allan Wyeth can be found as a pdf here:
http://www.monongahelabooks.com/Artistry+&+Authenticity.pdf
The story behind the rediscovery of Wyeth's war poems, and some interesting facts about his life, can be found here:
http://www.fairmontstate.edu/fsunow/academics/fsu-staff-member-bj-omanson-authors-new-book
Thanks very much,
BJ Omanson
Bradley Omanson
Ahead of publication, I can no longer keep the full essay available online. However, if anyone would like a copy of the full essay, email me at ski...@labyrinth.net and I will send a pdf as an attachment. I welcome comments, criticisms, discussion. Thank you.
Artistry and authenticity in the
war sonnets of John Allan Wyeth
précis:
“There are many compelling aspects of John Allan Wyeth’s sonnets of the First World War, but what I wish to concentrate on in this essay is Wyeth’s remarkable fidelity to historical fact and what effect that exacting factuality had on Wyeth’s artistry. I hope to demonstrate that questions of historical accuracy and of aesthetic integrity are inextricably related. In the course of this essay, I will propose ways of considering Wyeth’s relation to the British war poets, the High Modernists, the Imagists, and the Dadaists.” contact: BJ Omanson
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