Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg received scant attention during his lifetime but is now acknowledged to be one of the greatest poets of the First World War. As a private soldier he wrote in conditions of extreme danger, sending back poems from the Western Front on muddied scraps of paper. His vision was that of a painter-poet determined to transform experience into art through an unflinching eye. He was killed in action on April 1st 1918. This first synoptic biography highlights Rosenberg's range, not just as a war poet but also a love poet and a poet of the Anglo-Jewish Disaspora.

About the author:

Stephen Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He worked for many years as a consultant at the Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals and was honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Having retired from a professional career in medicine he now devotes himself entirely to writing. His collection of poems, Fluttering Hands, and Student Guide to Sigmund Freud are also published by Greenwich Exchange.

92  pages

ISBN: 978-1-906075-42-2