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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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- Rawlinson, Mark, British Writing of the 2nd World War, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-818456-5 (see page 114)
- The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
- Bowen, Roger, Many Histories Deep: The 'Personal Landscape' Poets in Egypt, 1940 – 1945, Associated University Presses, London, 1995.
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