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January 7 Walter De La Mare

2 August 201517 July 2016 Peter Wood
Poetry may be a veritable miracle of compression, as when Walter De La Mare, in just twenty-six words, explains how the dominating egotism of Napoleon created a whole pattern of existence for his army of men in retreat from Moscow:

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       NAPOLEON
retreat
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