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‘What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. This new anthology of First World War poetry that brings together the best poetry by soldiers and civilians, including women poets, with a fresh assessment of their work.

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    I was never really into poetry until I read the works of soldiers in WWI I felt in college.
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