A War Imagined. The First World War and English Culture

Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature as Princeton University. Together with his earlier works- The Edwardian Turn of Mind and The Auden Generation- A War Imagined forms an important continuous study of the relationship between literature, the arts and th4e events of history during the first four decades of the twentieth century.Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts we