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Thanks for introducing us to this lovely poem and interesting poet. Your explication certainly broadened my first reading of it (admittedly rather quick and shallow!) and I appreciate that very much.

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Sep 26Liked by Sally Thomas, Joseph Bottum

Excellent, excellent analysis. But are you not indulging in your own form of semantic jazz when you refer to WWI as a “hiatus” from {anything}? (😎)

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Heh, yeah.

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Though in his case, it kind of seems to have been like that.

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