English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1536 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas
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The idea
Isaac Rosenberg, a poet and painter from a Jewish East End family, wrote "Break of Day in the Trenches," which the critic Paul Fussell called "the greatest poem of the war," and was killed in nineteen eighteen. Edward Thomas, known for "Adlestrop," was killed at Arras in nineteen seventeen.
In practice
Two poets killed in the war.
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Both were killed in the war.
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