He wrote several poems about lying under trees, gazing at the light and shade.

ECONOMIST: Samuel Menashe, a New York poet, died on August 22nd, aged 85

One of the reasons he wrote letters and poems so copiously was that they lifted his spirits, diverting him from the demons within.

ECONOMIST: English letters

After this meeting he wrote his best known poems including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem For Doomed Youth.

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He called his poems psalms and sonnets, though he never consciously wrote in either form.

ECONOMIST: Samuel Menashe, a New York poet, died on August 22nd, aged 85