An Introduction to the Literary Analysis of Gay Chaps (6809 words, 27 pages)
Susan SchweikFrom the start, "Gay Chaps" links itselfdirectly and indirectly both to soldiers' letters and to soldier poetry. Its title andepigraph derive explicitly, as I have said, from a letter to the author from a"Lieutenant William Couch, in the South Pacific." After an opening dedication toBrooks's brother ("souvenir for Staff ...
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