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The War Poet

Journey from Obscurity is not primarily about Wilfred Owen, who merely plays a part in it. Mr. Owen now regrets the typically modest im- pulse that led him, against his......

Autumn Books 2 The Fall Of Babylon

By D. W. BROC M R. HORNE rightly insists on the shock to . nineteenth-century optimism caused first of all by the siege of Paris and then by the Com- mune.* A few months before,......