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Douglas, Keith Castellain
English poet. During World War II he served as a tank commander in North Africa, where he wrote some of his finest poems, published after his death in Alamein to Zem Zem (1946). His Collected Poems were published in 1951. His poem ‘Simplify Me When I'm Dead’ is a powerfully moving vision of his own death.
Douglas attended Christ's Hospital school, Sussex, and then Blunden's, Oxford. Initially injured by a mine in North Africa, he returned to service and was killed in action in Normandy shortly after D-day.
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Betjeman, John
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Clarke, Gillian
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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns)
Fanthorpe, U(rsula) A
Hardy, Thomas (novelist)
Heaney, Seamus Justin
Hughes, Ted (Edward James)
Jennings, Elizabeth Joan
Larkin, Philip Arthur
MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Masefield, John
Noyes, Alfred
Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter
Plath, Sylvia
Rosenberg, Isaac
Smith, Stevie (Florence Margaret)
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