Also ignored is E. E. Cummings.
Hal
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> 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:
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> 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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