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 | | He saw a number of his fellow servicemen, as well as several of hisclosest friends, lose their lives, and he himself ended up in a military hospital suffering from trench fever. |
 | | Scholars of his work say that the war influenced his writings; that he saw fantasy as a way to escape from the harshreality of factories, machines, guns and bombs of the 20th century. |
 | | In 1920 he took up a post as Reader in English language at the University of Leeds, but in 1925 he returned to Oxford as a Professor of Anglo-Saxon. |
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