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"Into Battle" is a 1915 war poem by a British First World War subaltern, Julian Grenfell. [1] The poem was published posthumously in The Times after Grenfell fell in 1915. At the time it was as popular as Rupert Brooke 's " The Soldier ".
The Poetry is in the pity." [10] Today Grenfell is most remembered for his poem "Into Battle" written in May 1915, the closing lines read; "The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings."
Into Battle features a number of historical characters including the wealthy socialite Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough; her two sons Julian Grenfell (after whose poem the play is named) and Billy Grenfell; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, another war poet; Ronald Poulton, the distinguished rugby player; and the respected theologian Reverend Neville ...
May 13 – While English poet Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands a few yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times (London) the day after his death. [7]
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Died: Julian Grenfell, English poet and army officer, author of the poem "Into Battle" (b. 1888) May 27, 1915 (Thursday)
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.
May 13 – As Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands some yards away and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times the following day. [6]