TY - GEN N2 - From the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II, many poets around the world felt an obligation to write about the wars of their time. Famed poets like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Ivor Gurney had earned their literary authority because of their experience fighting in the trenches during World War I, but civilian poets who wished to write about warfare doubted their own authority to write about the battles from afar. In 'News of War', Professor Rachel Galvin argues that this standard is a strongly gendered norm that is problematic for women writers, who were much less likely to have firsthand experience with war. AB - From the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II, many poets around the world felt an obligation to write about the wars of their time. Famed poets like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Ivor Gurney had earned their literary authority because of their experience fighting in the trenches during World War I, but civilian poets who wished to write about warfare doubted their own authority to write about the battles from afar. In 'News of War', Professor Rachel Galvin argues that this standard is a strongly gendered norm that is problematic for women writers, who were much less likely to have firsthand experience with war. T1 - News of war :civilian poetry, 1936-1945 / AU - Galvin, Rachel Judith, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR605.W3 ID - 808574 KW - War poetry, English KW - English poetry KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - War poetry KW - Journalism SN - 9780190623951 TI - News of war :civilian poetry, 1936-1945 / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190623920.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190623920.001.0001 ER -