1. Beyond In Flanders Fields: this year, in addition to Lt.-Col. John McCrae’s classic, consider reading some of its sources and influences as well.
2. For example, the final lines of In Flanders Fields echo the imagery and moral exhortation of the last lines of Newbolt’s Vitaï Lampada, from 1892.
3. And Rupert Brooke’s The Dead describes sunset, dawn, and other experiences in tone and syntax that McCrae echoed in his poem the next year.
4. Finally, while you’re at it, Brooke’s The Soldier. Raw Romanticism from a now-distant time and place. “Never such innocence again,” as Larkin put it. Indeed.
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