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Poets And Trench-warfare

Graham Martin Out of Battle, The Poetry of the Great War Jon Silkin (Oxford University Press 0.00) Question: What have these three in common? A German soldier hanging on the old......

Letters From The Golden Age

Bernard Shaw In 1898, Bernard Shaw was forty-two years old, and although he was the author of five novels and eight plays, his literary career had hardly begun. To Shaw, it must......