Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet. Isaac Rosenberg was among the greatest poets of the First World War. The British-born son of impoverished Russian Jews, Rosenberg fought as a private in the trenches of the Great Was and died on the Western Front in 1918 as the age of 27. In Isaac Rosenberg, Wilson examines the influence of Rosenberg's class and heritage on his writings, as well as the development of his poetic technique. She traces his maturation from his childhood in Bristol and the Jewish East End of London to art school, his travels to South Africa, and finally his harrowing service as a private in the British Army. Rosenberg was also a gifted painter and this beautifully illustrated volume includes some never before seen self-portraits, along with photographs of Rosenberg and his family. Wilson's biography brings together all known Rosenberg material with a mass of important new discoveries. Isaac Rosenberg is a long-overdue consideration of a remarkable war poet.