Schlagwort: Robert Nichols

95. Radical Feeling in the Poetry of WWI

The most popular English poem of the First World War was “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae after fighting in the second Battle of Ypres in 1915. The poem ventriloquizes the British dead and concludes with a bit of hortatory sentimental propaganda: Take… Continue Reading „95. Radical Feeling in the Poetry of WWI“