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Edward Thomas (poet)

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Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. [1]

105 relations: A & C Black, Adlestrop, Adlestrop railway station, Agny, Almeida Theatre, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Andrew Motion, Artists Rifles, Barclay James Harvest, Battersea Grammar School, Battle of Arras (1917), Beeching cuts, Berkshire, Biographical novel, Bloodaxe Books, Bloomsbury Publishing, Booker Prize, British nationality law, Carol Rumens, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Constable & Robinson, Corporal, Daily Chronicle, Dodd, Mead & Co., Duckworth Overlook, Dymock, Dymock poets, E. P. Dutton, East Hampshire, Eastbury, Berkshire, Ebury Publishing, Edna Longley, Edward Garnett, Eleanor Farjeon, Epigraph (literature), Faber and Faber, Fulham, Gloucestershire, Graham Greene, Gregynog Press, Hamish Hamilton, Hattie Morahan, Henry Holt and Company, Ian Hamilton (critic), Ian McEwan, Internet Archive, Ivor Gurney, J. M. Coetzee, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Jonathan Cape, ..., Kent, Lambeth, Lascelles Abercrombie, Lincoln College, Oxford, Linda Newbery, Lucy Newlyn, Matthew Hollis, Methuen Publishing, Nan A. Talese, Nick Dear, Norman Douglas, Now All Roads Lead to France, Oxford University Press, Pas-de-Calais, Pat Barker, Peter M. Sacks, Petersfield Museum, Pip Carter, Poets' Corner, Richard J. Stonesifer, Robert Frost, Robert Goddard (novelist), Robert Macfarlane (writer), Royal Garrison Artillery, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Second lieutenant, Sevenoaks, St Paul's School, London, Steep, Hampshire, Stuart Maconie, Sunken lane, Surrey, Sweet Tooth (novel), Ted Hughes, The Book of Dave, The Ghost Road, The Guardian, The Road Not Taken, The Waste Land, Thomas Nelson (publisher), Tuttle Publishing, United States, University of Oxford, W. H. Davies, W. W. Norton & Company, Wales, War poet, Westminster Abbey, Wilfred Owen, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Will Self, Woolly Wolstenholme, World War I, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, Zamanfou. Expand index (55 more) »

A & C Black

A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Adlestrop

Adlestrop (formerly Titlestrop or Edestrop) is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England.

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Adlestrop railway station

Adlestrop railway station was a railway station which served the village of Adlestrop in Gloucestershire, England, between 1853 and 1966.

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Agny

Agny is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325-seat studio theatre with an international reputation, which takes its name from the street on which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington.

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Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales.

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Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

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Artists Rifles

The Artists Rifles is a regiment of the British Army Reserve.

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Barclay James Harvest

Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band.

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Battersea Grammar School

Battersea Grammar School was a Voluntary-Controlled Secondary Grammar School in South London.

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Battle of Arras (1917)

The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during World War I. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Biographical novel

The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life.

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Bloodaxe Books

Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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British nationality law

British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom which concerns citizenship and other categories of British nationality.

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Carol Rumens

Carol Rumens FRSL (born 10 December 1944 Forest Hill, South London) is a British poet.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by many militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations.

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Daily Chronicle

The Daily Chronicle was a British newspaper that was published from 1872 to 1930 when it merged with the Daily News to become the News Chronicle.

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Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

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Duckworth Overlook

Duckworth Overlook, originally Gerald Duckworth and Company, founded in 1898 by Gerald Duckworth, is an independent British publisher.

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Dymock

Dymock is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, about four miles south of Ledbury.

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Dymock poets

The Dymock poets were a literary group of the early 20th century who made their homes near the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire, near to the border with Herefordshire.

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E. P. Dutton

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East Hampshire

East Hampshire is a local government district in Hampshire, England.

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Eastbury, Berkshire

Eastbury is a small village in the valley of the River Lambourn in the English county of Berkshire.

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Ebury Publishing

Ebury Publishing is a division of Penguin Random House, and is a well-known publisher of general non-fiction books in the UK.

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Edna Longley

Edna Longley (born 1940) is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.

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Edward Garnett

Edward William Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published.

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Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon (–) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.

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Epigraph (literature)

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Fulham

Fulham is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in South West London, England, south-west of Charing Cross.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Gregynog Press

The Gregynog Press, also known as Gwasg Gregynog, is a printing press and charity located at Gregynog Hall near Newtown in Powys, Wales.

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Hamish Hamilton

Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic 'Seumas', James the English form – which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form).

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Hattie Morahan

Harriet Jane ″Hattie″ Morahan (born 7 October 1978) is an English television, film, and stage actress.

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Henry Holt and Company

Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.

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Ian Hamilton (critic)

Robert Ian Hamilton (24 March 1938 – 27 December 2001) was a British literary critic, reviewer, biographer, poet, magazine editor and publisher.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Ivor Gurney

Ivor Bertie Gurney (28 August 1890 – 26 December 1937) was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Jean Moorcroft Wilson (born 3 October 1941) is a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of First World War poets and poetry.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Lambeth

Lambeth is a district in Central London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth.

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Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".

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Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.

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Linda Newbery

Linda Iris Newbery (born 12 August 1952) is a British writer known best for young adult fiction—where she entered the market, although she has broadened her range to encompass all ages.

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Lucy Newlyn

Lucy Newlyn (born 1956) is a poet and academic, who is Emeritus Fellow in English at St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, having retired as professor of English Language and Literature there in 2016.

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Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an English author, editor, professor, and poet, currently living in London, England.

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Methuen Publishing

Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.

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Nan A. Talese

Nan Talese (née Ahearn; born December 19, 1933) is an American editor, and a veteran of the New York publishing industry.

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Nick Dear

Nick Dear (born 11 June 1955 in Portsmouth) is an English writer for stage, screen and radio.

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Norman Douglas

George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.

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Now All Roads Lead to France

Now All Roads Lead To France is a 2011 non-fiction book by Matthew Hollis.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pas-de-Calais

Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders ('pas' meaning passage).

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

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Peter M. Sacks

Peter M. Sacks (born 1950) is an expatriate South African painter and poet living in the United States.

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Petersfield Museum

Petersfield Museum is a local museum in the small town of Petersfield in the English county of Hampshire.

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Pip Carter

Pip Carter is an English actor.

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is the name traditionally given to a section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of the high number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.

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Richard J. Stonesifer

Richard James Stonesifer (June 21, 1922–January, 1999) was the fifth President of Monmouth University.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Robert Goddard (novelist)

Robert William Goddard (born 13 November 1954 in Fareham, Hampshire) is an English novelist.

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Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer.

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Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA).

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Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung (German for South German Newspaper), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant (called lieutenant in some countries) is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1b rank.

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Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town and civil parish with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London in western Kent, England.

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St Paul's School, London

St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m2) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.

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Steep, Hampshire

Steep is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Stuart Maconie

Stuart Maconie (born 13 August 1960) is a British radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture.

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Sunken lane

A sunken lane (also hollow way or holloway) is a road or track that is significantly lower than the land on either side, not formed by the (recent) engineering of a road cutting but possibly of much greater age.

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Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

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Sweet Tooth (novel)

Sweet Tooth is a novel by the English writer Ian McEwan, published on 21 August 2012.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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The Book of Dave

The Book of Dave is a 2006 novel by English author Will Self.

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The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road is a war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Road Not Taken

"The Road Not Taken" is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916 as the first poem in the collection Mountain Interval.

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The Waste Land

The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.

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Thomas Nelson (publisher)

Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1798 as the namesake of its founder.

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Tuttle Publishing

Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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W. H. Davies

William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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War poet

A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about his experiences, or a non-combatant who write poems about war.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier.

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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.

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Will Self

William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality.

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Woolly Wolstenholme

Stuart John "Woolly" Wolstenholme (15 April 1947 – 13 December 2010) was a vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II

Youth (or Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II) (2002) is a semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel by J. M. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town.

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Zamanfou

Zamanfou, also known as "ochaderfismos" (Greek "Ωχαδερφισμός") is a counterculture phenomenon in Greece which involves social loafing as its principal characteristic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_(poet)

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