![]() ![]() ![]() In Some Desperate Glory, the historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at the life and work of this assemblage of poets. The poets-many of whom were killed-show not only the war's tragedy but also the hopes and disappointments of a generation of men. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry-words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. ![]() Max Egremont's Some Desperate Glory presents the story of World War I through the lives and words of its poets. ![]()
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