war poetry, 20th-cent.
war poetry, 20th-cent.It is generally agreed that the First World War inspired poetry of the highest order, some of it ground-breaking in both treatment of subject and technique: combatants included W. Owen , Sassoon , Rosenberg , R. Graves , E. Thomas , and R. Brooke (the last of whom died before seeing active service), and memorable poems and elegies on the theme were contributed by Hardy , Binyon , Housman , and others. Kipling 's poetry struck a different and more patriotic note from that of most of his contemporaries, but the anguish of losing his son to the conflict left a deep mark on him and his work. The Spanish Civil War, very much a writers' war, attracted some important British poets, including John Cornford , Spender , Auden , and MacNeice , as well as less well-remembered names like those of Clive Branson , Miles Tomalin , Bernard Gutteridge , and H. B. Mallalieu ....
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