Explores how British poets Wilfred Owen, Seigfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Rupert Brooke brought their inherited ideologies from Christianity, imperialism, and Romanticism to their understanding of the unprecedented slaughter of World War I. Focuses on how ideas about suffering, love, and relations between men were both reinforced and altered by their experiences. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.