“High Flight” was not John Gillespie Magee Jr.’s only literary work. He wrote more than a dozen poems in his brief life, but he was most proud of his sonnet, “Brave New World,” which won the Rugby Poetry Prize in 1939. Chapter Eight of my novel, A Day in Eternity, imagines how he composed the sonnet along the North Devon shoreline. The novel’s title comes from a line in Magee’s sonnet: “We were but a day in Eternity … still, we believed ….” Source: The Complete Works of John Magee, The Pilot Poet, This England Books, 1989.
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