Challenge
Author: first_name: John William
last_name: Streets
Language: English
Year: 1916

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes:<br>

Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: "They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands of others who, like myself, are on the verge of departure from England."<br><br>

Cpl. Streets, in a letter accompanying later poems, also wrote: "They were inspired while I was in the trenches, where I have been so busy that I have had little time to polish them. I have tried t