Sunday 11 November 2007

A Thought For Remembrance Day


I have always thought the war poets to be the most chilling of all writers, at times you can almost taste their sense of dread and horror.


(above is page four of a letter from Wilfrid Owen to his mother from the Oxford University archives, the other pages can be found here: http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/images/letters/wo592-1.jpg









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