Isaac Rosenberg — a remark

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“I am determined that my poetry shall have the same primitive power as a painting.”

Expressing his wish to give poetry the direct force and intensity of visual art · Letter to Gordon Bottomley

About Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg

25 November 1890–1 April 1918

Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol on 25 November 1890 and killed in France on 1 April 1918, at the age of twenty-seven. His brief life has come to seem almost emblematic of a generation interrupted by the First World War, yet his achievement cannot be understood merely as the achievement of a “war poet.” Rosenberg…

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