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Chapter 1 - The Poetic Marketplace

from Part I - Literary Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2023

Jane Potter
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Oxford Brookes University
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This chapter examines the market for poetry during the First World War, discussing the various outlets for verse and the factors that drove its publication and consumption. While previous studies of wartime publishing tend to focus on specific national contexts, this chapter surveys the international dimensions of the poetic marketplace, with a particular focus on the publishing of poetry in Britain, France, Germany and the USA. Drawing on a range of primary sources – including contemporary periodicals and publishing records – it reveals why poems were published in a range of books, magazines, and newspapers. In doing so, it demonstrates that the profusion of wartime poetry was not only a literary phenomenon, but also one that was shaped by commercial and political forces.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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