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War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World War I. [1] A significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in English, it was backed up by strong biographical research on the poets included. Those ...
[4] His poem was intended to serve as a call to arms against Germany. [5] The poem popularized the usage of the term "Hun" to describe the Germans. [1] His use of the word was a remark on a patriotic speech by Wilhelm II that compared the German tradition to that of the Huns. [6] 1914-1918-online described the word as an example of British ...
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill Mikhailovich Simonov (Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Си́монов, 28 November [O.S. 15 November] 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, war poet, playwright and wartime correspondent, [3] arguably most famous for his 1941 poem "Wait for Me".
August – The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. September – J. R. R. Tolkien writes a poem about Eärendil, the first appearance of his mythopoeic Middle-earth legendarium.
Research establishes that German and British soldiers played soccer on the Western Front during a famed World War I Christmas truce.
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.
Captain Gilbert Frankau (21 April 1884 – 4 November 1952) was a popular British novelist. He was known also for verse (he was a war poet of World War I), including a number of verse novels, and short stories.