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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2015-01-11 10:53 am
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When the War was Over

My Awfully Big Blog Adventure post today is on the books that got written on the world wars, and the ones that didn't.

[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2015-01-12 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose that Amis's lack of consideration as a WW2 poet is probably due to his lack of specifically war poems. Though in the Army, he wasn't directly in combat, as far as I recall.

Wain wasn't drafted because he was basically blind in one eye.

Then there were the rather older, but still of military age, "Pylon poets." But I don't think any of them were in the military during the war.