Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from In the Day of Battle: Poems of the Great War
What good is like to this To do worthy the writing, and to write Worthy the reading and the world's delight?
It is a good motto and sets us thinking of one aspect of this extraordinary epoch of which the end is not yet, namely the relation of its literature to its action. Of deeds worthy the writing we have no lack, of writingto match those deeds we have quantity indeed, but how much of it will long be held worthy the reading and the world's delight?
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