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    Portrait by Sherril Schell of British poet Rupert Brooke.  (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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    5 influential WW1 poets you should know about

    During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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    Lithograph portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)
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    British former field marshal Douglas Haig, inspects poppies before Armistice Day, October 1922. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Remembering the First World War: blood, poppies and poetry

    Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Love, loss and distorted memories

    Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Q&A Where do the red poppies come from?

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    Q&A Why do we say 'mum's the word'?

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    Scottish poet Robert Burns. His poetry captured a familiar if rapidly disappearing rural way of life, says Christopher Whatley. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Robert Burns: the people’s poet

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