Literature and music of the First World War

Abstract

The introduction provides historical and cultural context for the articles that follow. It explores some of the issues discussed by writers, composers, and music critics of the First World War. The volume as a whole analyses some of the many different ways in which the British experience of the First World War was remembered, mourned, and raged against - as well as celebrated - in music and literature during the war and in the decades that followed. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.