And shells go crying over them—Voices of the Great War

World War I spawned a generation of British soldier-poets whose verse took poetry in a raw new direction. Rupert Brooke led the way with an unadorned realism, but his famous poem “The Soldier” still voices the patriotic fervor of the early war years. Brooke died of sepsis in April 1915, on his way to fight …

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