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Pages in category "World War I poems" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
3 1800–1914. 4 First World War. 5 Interwar period. ... Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer , who died in the Second Battle of Ypres .
This category is for poets who wrote war poetry around the time of World War I. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
"For All We Have And Are" is a 1914 poem by Rudyard Kipling in response to German war crimes during the First World War. The poem was published in The Times of London and The New York Times on 2 September 1914, after the German invasion of Belgium the month before.
The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I. It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.
When Henry James asked Yeats to submit a poem for publication in Wharton's collection which was intended to raise money for Belgium refugees, [4] Yeats intended for the poem to state his political position on the "European War". The poem's original title, "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations," appears, in ...