Top Ten war Poems
Search in the poems of Wilfred Owen: Wilfred Owen was born near Oswestry, Shropshire, where his father worked on the railway. He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute, Liverpool and Shrewsbury Technical College.
Owen was a great admirer of Sassoon’s poetry (in a surviving letter he refers to him as “Keats and Christ and Elijah”) and it was under his influence and supervision that Owen persevered as a poet, going on to pen some of his most famous war pieces.
A summary and analysis of ‘For the Fallen’, the poem of war commemoration by Laurence Binyon. Laurence Binyon’s ‘For the Fallen’ (1914) is one of the most widely quoted poems of the First World War.
As the first war poem to refer to poppies as a symbol of remembrance, the poem is still read across the world on Remembrance Day. McRae was a Canadian doctor and Lieutenant Colonel in the First World War, fighting and overseeing medical care in Boulogne with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I. Life Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13).
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".
In Flanders Fields by Linda Granfield The story of John McCrae's World War I poem interweaves the poet's words with information about the war, details of daily life in the trenches, accounts of McCrae's experience in his field hospital, and the circumstances that contributed to the poem's creation.
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est. ... who wrote some of the best British poetry on World War I, composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, ...
All poems of Rupert Brooke » Search in the poems of Rupert Brooke: A man of great physical beauty by reputation, Rupert Brooke was born in Rugby, Warwickshire where he attended the local school.
A soldier during World War I, Brooke died of dysentery and blood poisoning aboard a troop ship. Winston Churchill used the occasion of Brooke's death, as well as his posthumous collection 1914 and Other Poems, to reinforce a recruitment drive.
If you don’t own it already, treat yourself to a copy of Philip Larkin: Collected Poems. Well worth it, for the price of lunch. If you enjoyed this pick of the best Larkin poems, check out our pick of the best poems by John Betjeman and seven of the greatest Dylan Thomas poems.
Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all English war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War.