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At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and... read more

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First Sentence

The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes Till beauty shines in all that we can see.

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  1. Siegfried Sassoon (Author)
 

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