The War Correspondent | Bryan Aubrey
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on poetry. In this essay, he discusses the war reporting of Sir William Howard Russell and the use Carson made of it in “The War Correspondent.”
Bryan Aubrey
Aubrey holds a Ph.D. in English and has published many articles on poetry. In this essay, he discusses the war reporting of Sir William Howard Russell and the use Carson made of it in “The War Correspondent.”
Ciaran Carson’s “The War Correspondent” is a tribute to the war reporting of Sir William Howard Russell, whose words written in the mid-nineteenth century come to new life in the work of the Irish poet. Reading Russell’s vivid, richly descriptive dispatches from the Crimean War, it is not difficult to see why they have...
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