Movie: The Pity of War: The Loves and Lives of the War Poets

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John Hurt
John Hurt

Siegfried Sassoon

Morgan Watkins
Morgan Watkins

Siegfried Sassoon

Matthew Beard
Matthew Beard

Wilfred Owen

Joe Claflin
Joe Claflin

Robert Graves

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