Rupert Brooke did not survive the war, and nor did many other poets – Julian Grenfell, whose Into Battle is nearly as famous John McCrae, a Canadian surgeon, whose In Flanders Field, with its famous opening lines ( In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place) gave us Poppy Day Edward Thomas, Charles Sorley, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg were all killed in the War, but not before they had produced some fine poetry. That there’s some corner of a foreign field Most English people are familiar with the lines: English poetry alone is crowded with worthy cases. If you had to pick any war that made the greatest contribution to literature, it would be, without question, World War One. I’m sick of this damn war – the blood, the noise, the endless poetry – Lord Flasheart from Blackadder The Modern Novel home page » My Lists home page » World War I books
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