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Author : Lawrance, W Category : Biographies, Britain, Poetry Articles
Tags : Dulce et Decorum Est, Henry Newbolt, Jessie Pope, John McCrae, Julian Grenfell, Rudyard Kipling, Rupert Brooke, The Ballad of Purchase Money, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen
It is, perhaps, ironic that Jessie Pope should share her date of birth (although not the year) with Wilfred Owen, who vilified her and her type in his poem Dulce et Decorum Est. Her reputation today mainly persists due to Wilfred Owen’s original dedication of that poem to her, and his criticism therein of her […]
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