Apr 8th, 2021 5 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Director, Simon Center for American Studies
Joseph is the director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and AWC Family Foundation Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
The figure of a fallen soldier of the First World War and an exterior of the Bank of England in the City of London, on 1st March 2021, in London, England.
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Key Takeaways
Lewis reminds us that poetry has a unique power to communicate the grief and rage instigated by seemingly meaningless suffering.
World War I, preceded by an attachment to utopian illusions, produced a generation of authors utterly disillusioned with the ideals of Western civilization.