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Celebrating NPR's Petra Mayer with three literary things she loved

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Sassoon is one of the bestt or three known poets of the first old war. Most successful poems that he writes are very often these short ish, squib like seeming poems which are savagely satirical. These satires are not like anything else that had been written about war before. I'm going to read another really set of lyrics that you include here. Julia ward hows the battle hymn of the republic yes and and famously, that song that rallied union troops in the us. Civil war winds up by saying, in the beauty of the lilies, christ was born across the sea with the glory in his bosom. That transfigures you and me as he

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