War poems, written 1914-1918, by, among many, Laurence Binyon, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, Edmund Blunden, W.B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Inscribed by Richard Attenborough to Sir Ralph Richardson, 'My dear Ralphie, I cannot tell you how tremendously thrilled I am that you are playing Sir Edward. It will mean such an enormous amount to the picture. Thank you so much, Dickie A. Oh! What a Lovely War. ... Brighton April 1968.' Richardson played Sir Edward Grey in Attenborough's movie version of Joan Littlewood's musical history of World War One.
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