Seems to me that a while back we had a thread about Edward Thomas over at Musing on Mastery. To me he's the most underrated great poet of the 20th c. I know he wrote a wonderful poem about the Great War, of which I remember only the following lines (and often say them to myself while out walking):
Now on the road to France
heavy is the tread
of the living, but the dead
returning lightly dance...
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