Dorothy L. Sayers doubts whether even a Nazi poet could make an epic about the massacre of Poland. Agincourt and the Armada are celebrated as the exploits of the outnumbered. Hector is the hero of the Iliad; the most moving war-poems are made about valiant rearguard actions—Corunna, Thermopylae, Roncevaux.
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Southland Times, Issue 24237, 21 September 1940, Page 8
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49Untitled Southland Times, Issue 24237, 21 September 1940, Page 8
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