In the line of fire
The most moving accounts of the 20th century's two great conflicts were written in verse. As British troops withdraw from Basra city, James Campbell asks where are the war poets of today?
The war against Hitler was barely a year old before newspapers began asking: Where are the war poets? The bountiful poetry thrown up by the first world war, which provided, in an imaginative sense, a redemption of its horrors, was fresh enough in memory to prompt immediate comparison when war broke out again. Lees verder in The Guardian.
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