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Thread #114464 Message #2442753
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
17-Sep-08 - 12:54 AM
Thread Name: Poem w/ connection to folk singer
Subject: RE: Poem w/ connection to folk singer
Ref, you got the second part. Seeger died in 1916, his poems collected and published postumously in 1917. WWI was a tough on poets. Joyce Kilmer ("Trees") also was killed in battle. Maybe a few others.