Play the Game: The Collected Poetry of Henry Newbolt 1862-1938 Howlett John
Two of Henry Newbolt's poems 'Vitai Lampada' and 'Drake's Drum' became staples of poetry anthologies and were known and recited by every school-boy. His poetry helped in constructing ideas around late…
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Two of Henry Newbolt's poems 'Vitai Lampada' and 'Drake's Drum' became staples of poetry anthologies and were known and recited by every school-boy. His poetry helped in constructing ideas around late Victorian/Edwardian imperial manliness. In this respect, Newbolt's work mirrors that of W.E. Henley, who also wrote poems which became part of a national lexicon and celebrated empire and the virtues of a stiff upper lip attitude to life. The Collected Poetry is the first critical scholarly edition of his work. Despite in his own time being a well-known and immensely popular poet, Newbolt has since fallen into comparative critical neglect bar Susan Chitty's (1997) biography and Victoria Jackson's (1994) study. The aim here is to place the poet's literary work in a broader context that has hitherto not been addressed. Comparison with other literary works of the time reveal the
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