The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and
Language, Class, Death and Landscape in the Poetry of the First World War
โ Scribed by Coyle, M.
- Book ID
- 126293914
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 742 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0013-8215
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