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One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece.
This exploration of famous Black poems and their writers highlights the enduring power of poetry to capture the human ...
At around 0930 every day this week (beginning 15 March) on the Milton Keynes Breakfast show, poets will perform either their own work, or verses written by famous war time authors.
Cincinnati was one of the three famous warhorses owned by American Civil war general and later President Ulysses S. Grant.
THE Armistice between the Allies and Germany began at 11am on November 11, 1918, signalling the beginning of the end of the First World War. A two-minute silence is observed on Remembrance Day to ...
It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure of battle. “He was not eager to die,” Michael Korda writes of Siegfried ...
One of Britain’s most famous wartime poems, Laurence Binyon ‘For The Fallen’ – also known as Ode To Remember – was first published in September 1914, just a couple of months into the ...
A Prince Edward Island writer had a powerful connection with the author of one of the most famous war poems in the world. Sir Andrew Macphail paid tribute to his friend Lt.-Col. John McCrae in an ...