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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.
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war ...
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 poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
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. A.
The poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae continues to be one of the more popular wartime poems in Canada, and has achieved a status where it is recognized as one of the country's most notable unofficial symbols. The expressionist poet August Stramm wrote some of Germany's important poems about the war. [6]
Owen wrote a number of his most famous poems at Craiglockhart, including several drafts of "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Soldier's Dream", and "Anthem for Doomed Youth". Sassoon advised and encouraged Owen, and this is evident in a number of drafts which include Sassoon’s annotations. [10] Only five of Owen's poems were published in his lifetime.
Sassoon (front) with his brother Hamo and other students on the morning after a college May Ball at Cambridge University in 1906. Siegfried Sassoon was born to a Jewish father and an Anglo-Catholic mother, and grew up in the neo-gothic mansion named Weirleigh (after its builder Harrison Weir) in Matfield, Kent. [3]