Jessie Pope

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1868 – 1941

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Who was Jessie Pope?

Jessie Pope was an English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems published during World War I. Wilfred Owen directed his 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum Est at Pope, whose literary reputation has faded into relative obscurity as those of war poets such as Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have grown.

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Born
Mar 18, 1868
Leicester
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Education
  • North London Collegiate School
Died
Dec 14, 1941
Devon

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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