Interesting question; but I have no idea....
Except the Brits went in all full of the joy of war early & then
lived, some of them, long enough to find out how wrong they were....
(& you're ignoring Pound & Eliot, who didn't 'go to war' but certainly
responded to it...; not 'war poets' though.)
Doug
On 21-Apr-09, at 12:15 PM, Bradley Omanson wrote:
> Any opinions as to why America produced no poets comparable to the
> British poets during WWI? American novelists produced a significant
> body of literature related to the war, so why not the poets?
>
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