A war poet is a poet writing in time of and on the subject of war. The term, which is applied especially to those in military service during World War I, was documented as early as 1848 in reference to German revolutionary poet, Georg Herwegh.
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“The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
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