jim, excellent point re sasson and owen.
i agree with your p.s.
kim
--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the link. I really don't care one way or
> another about his
> opinion of the war, but these lines in the article
> made me choke:
>
> > His work followed a rich tradition of British
> protest poets -- Siegfried Sassoon
> > and Wilfred Owen were famed for graphic imagery
> bringing home the horrors
> > of World War One trenches.
> >
>
> Seeing that Sassoon and Owen were actually
> *combatants* in the war they
> were writing about, I don't think the current poet
> should be associated
> with their tradition.
>
> Jim
>
> PS the poem, by the way, was....eh.
>
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