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His younger brother the Honourable Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell was killed in action on 30 July 1915, within a mile of where Julian had previously been fatally wounded. The death of both Julian and Billy was a dreadful blow to their mother Lady (Ethel) "Ettie" Desborough, who was haunted by bereavement for the rest of her life.
May 26 – Julian Grenfell, English war poet, 27, killed at Ypres; July 30 – Gerald William Grenfell, English war poet, 25, killed in action; September 1 – August Stramm, German poet and playwright, 41, killed in action on the Eastern Front; October 13 – Charles Sorley, British poet, 20, shot in the head by a sniper, at the Battle of Loos ...
Ethel travelled to France to see her son who had a splinter in his brain. Julian took 13 days to die. Another son, Gerald William (Billy) Grenfell, was killed only months later in July 1915. A third son, Ivo Grenfell, who became a farmer, died in a car accident in 1926. [citation needed]
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I . [ 1 ]
She's stoned to death, leaving the heroine with riches and the audience to question who the tricksy werewolf of the story really is: the grandmother, or the ambitious young girl. It's likely that any 21st century writer working in the genre was influenced by Carter, and Amber Sparks – whose new collection The Unfinished World has been ...
As a stand-up comic, Robin Williams was among the quickest wits to ever work a rowdy comedy club. His mouth worked as fast as his manic mind; audiences sat up just to decipher the multi-pitched ...
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press.A long introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the "good" ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since the death of Tennyson.
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