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"'Now Often Forgotten': Gollum, the Great War, and the Last Alliance."

ResearchPaper EnglishPeter Grybauskas From Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I.World War I has been called “the poets’ war,” as it was characterized by a massive outpouring of works of literature during and after the war. Much of this literary harvest, as Paul Fussell brilliantly demonstrated in The Great War and Modern Memory, hinged on an ironic response to the deadly absurdities of World War I."'Now Often Forgott…Faculty62956