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"""In Flanders Fields"" is one of the most famous war poems ever written. Its author, John McCrae, was a medical doctor and poet who served in Europe in World War I and wrote the poem to mark the funeral of a friend killed in the Second Battle of Ypres. It remains one of the most enduring literary expressions of the horrors of war, and is perhaps the best-known Canadian poem ever penned. This collection of McCrae's poems was first published in 1919, shortly after McCrae died of pneumonia he had contracted on the battlefields of Europe. The original edition included an appreciation of the author by Sir Andrew Macphail, another noted Canadian doctor and writer of the period."

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"John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe in World War I. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems, including ""In Flanders Fields,"" perhaps the most famous Canadian poem ever written. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours. Sir Andrew Macphail was a noted Canadian physician and man of letters. The founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, he also published more than ten books. He was knighted for his literary and military work in 1918. The book for which he is best remembered is The Master's Wife. Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa."

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