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Professor Langdon Hammer: Last Wednesday, talking about the poetry of World War I, we were talking about poems written in the period 1914 to 1918, pretty much the period of the First World War. This is a period that we've already had a certain amount to say about. It is the period in which Frost starts writing, publishes A Boy's Will in London and then North of Boston in 1915. It's the same period in which Yeats's work undergoes its important stylistic shift in development in the volume called Responsibilities and other books from the teens exemplified in that little poem "A Coat." It is a period in which, in London itself, are gathered Frost, Yeats, Pound and Eliot – all poets we'll study – not simply gathered but interacting, talking to each other, reading each other's work and giving each other ideas and criticism. Another figure in this milieu and of this moment is the poet H.D. Here, she is in a photo from 1915 with a locket in a poetical pose. Let's see, I've some other photos of

ENGL 310 ENGL 310 Modern Poetry: Lecture 8 Transcript Professor Langdon Hammer : Last Wednesday, talking about the poetry of World War I, we were talking about poems written in the period 1914 to 1918, pretty much the period of the First World War. This is a period that we've already had a certain amount to say about. It is the period in which Frost starts writing, publishes A Boy's Will in London and then North of Boston in 1915. It's the same period in which Yeats's work undergoes its important stylistic shift in development in the volume called Responsibilities and other books from the teen

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