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“War doesn't ennoble: it degrades.”

His own verdict after nodding agreement with Sassoon that even the hardening of the individual soul is not worth praise · Introduction to Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems, New York, November 1918

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Robert Nichols

6 September 1893–17 December 1944

In the pantheon of early twentieth-century British poetry, certain voices echo through the decades with enduring resonance, while others fade into the margins of literary history despite their once-prominent positions. Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols belongs to this latter category—a poet whose name once commanded…

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