The Life And Work Of Nemerov
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"Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of
fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to
me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. Nemerov's virtues are
all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an
irreverent sen ....
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.... and a strong athlete.
After graduating in 1937, he went to Harvard, where he received his
Bachelor of Arts degree. At the start of World War II, Nemerov became
attracted to the air force. However, like all poets, this attraction
gradually grew into terror at the reality of war ("Nemerov" 249). Nemerov
first served as a flying officer with the RAF Coastal Command, attacking
German ships over the North Sea. Then in 1944, he was transferred to the
Eighth United States Army Air Force, ba ....
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