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Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
The Pities of War: A Brief Overview of the First World War British Poets and Poetry by Pinaki Roy, in The Atlantic Critical Review Quarterly (International), Vol. 9, No. 1, January–March 2010, pp. 40–56 (ISSN 0972-6373, ISBN 978-81-269-1421-0)
Welsh World War I poets (5 P) Pages in category "British World War I poets" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Catherine Reilly has closely studied women's literature from World War I and its resulting impact on the relationship between gender, class, and society. Reilly's 1981 anthology, Scars Upon my Heart: Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War, is the first work strictly dedicated to examining women's poetry and prose from World War I. In ...
Thomas's poems are written in a colloquial style and frequently feature the English countryside. The short poem In Memoriam exemplifies how his poetry blends the themes of war and the countryside. On 11 November 1985, Thomas was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. [34]
Twenty of the poets who contributed to this volume died during the war. The editor was the journalist and author Edward Bolland Osborn (1867–1938), and the book was printed in London by the publishers John Murray. This anthology was one of several collections of war poetry published in the UK during the war.
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 ...
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 [1]) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".