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The Unknown Soldier: The Poetry of John Allan Wyeth

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John Allan Wyeth is the missing figure in the American literature of World War I-a soldier poet still worth reading. Little known in his own lifetime, he has been utterly forgotten by posterity. Even scholars and historians of the period don't recognize his name. Yet his work remains fresh and compelling eighty years after its publication. A graduate of Princeton and an acquaintance of Edmund Wilson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wyeth is an elusive, even mysterious character. Much of his adult life remains obscure. He left a surprisingly small paper trail for a writer who lived for nearly nine decades. His literary legacy consists of a single volume, This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets ...

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