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This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen. "1914" "Anthem for Doomed Youth" "Arms and the Boy" "As Bronze may be much Beautified" "Asleep" "At a Calvary near the Ancre" "Beauty" "The Bending Over of Clancy Year 12 on October 19th" "But I Was Looking at the Permanent Stars" "The Calls" "The Chances" "Conscious" "Cramped in that Funny Hole" "The ...
Edmund Charles Blunden CBE MC (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic.Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
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 ...
Cannan published three volumes of poetry during and after the war. These were In War Time (1917), The Splendid Days (1919) which was dedicated to Bevil Quiller-Couch, and The House of Hope (1923), dedicated to her father. In 1934, she wrote one novel The Lonely Generation.
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.
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 ...
During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War. His poem " Wait for Me ", about a soldier in the war asking his beloved to wait for his return, remains one of the best-known poems in Russian literature.