In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

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In Flanders Fields, the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canadas and the worlds best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.<br><br>This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of McCraes writings, originally issued by his friends in 1919 in his honour and memory. It includes the best of his poetry and selections of his letters from the front lines together with a thoughtful essay of appreciation by his friend and fellow medical officer, Sir Andrew Macphail.

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Michael Gnarowski co-edited<i>The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada</i>, compiled<i>The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature</i>, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson and was for a number of year the founding Director of Carleton University Press. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa. Presently he is Series Editor for the reissue of the novels of Hugh MacLennan for McGill-Queens University Press.

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