When the Great War, the war to end war, exacted its pound of flesh from the nations, it ground in its teeth the best of British youths — from college, cottage and countryside.

Among them was a flowering of poets such as the English-speaking world has not seen again. Perhaps in vengeful irony God was showing man what he was wasting, demanding what right he had to do so.

More than 80 British poets ranging in age from just 19 to the their 40s were buried. All were published or anthologized before or after their brief lives.

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