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Francis Ledwidge

(Ledwidge, Francis, 1887-1917)

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Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a 20th-century Irish poet. From Slane, County Meath, and sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was later also known as a First World War war poet. He befriended the established writer Lord Dunsany, who helped with the publication of his works. He was killed in action at Ypres in 1917. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Ledwidge, Francis, 1887-1917, contrib.: Selections from Modern Poets (London: M. Secker, 1921), ed. by John Collings Squire, also contrib. by Lascelles Abercrombie, Martin Armstrong, Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Blunden, Gordon Bottomley, Rupert Brooke, Francis Burrows, Archibald Y. Campbell, G. K. Chesterton, Padraic Colum, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Edward Lewis Davison, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, R. C. K. Ensor, James Elroy Flecker, Robin Flower, John Freeman, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, Ralph Hodgson, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Rose Macaulay, Thomas MacDonagh, John Masefield, Harold Monro, T. Sturge Moore, Robert Nichols, Seumas O'Sullivan, Wilfred Owen, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Siegfried Sassoon, Edward Shanks, Charles Hamilton Sorley, James Stephens, Edward Wyndham Tennant, Edward Thomas, W. J. Turner, Iolo Aneurin Williams, and Francis Brett Young
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