Unlike the other poets on this list, Kipling did not take part in the First World War. He was 48 when the conflict broke out in 1914 so rather than signing up to fight, he wrote pro-war propaganda ...

The first stanza of the poem reminds us of the spirit of a soldier even though he may die at war. This poem too, is optimistic and hopeful in its tonality, even though the theme at large is martyrdom.

The First World War was “one of the seminal moments of the twentieth century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems”, writes ...

While the most memorable war poem in the literal sense must be credited to Blackadder’s Baldrick, the First World War – which ended 100 years ago this Sunday – produced some of the most ...

Trench poetry from World War I gave soldiers a way to express the dreams and nightmares of being on the front and caught in the drama of the battlefield. Out Sep. 23 from First Second Books, ...

Kendall points to the poem Britannia as an example of what appeared in the first days of World War I. The author was Henry De Vere Stacpoole, known best for his novel The Blue Lagoon. It appeared ...

Ivor Gurney (1890–1937), a promising student of the English composer Charles Villiers Stanford, thought of music, not poetry, as his primary vocation.It was in the trenches in France during World War ...

One voice among thousands. While Owen wrote powerful poetry, he was just one of 2,225 men and women from Britain and Ireland who had poems published during World War One.

Actors Jake Morgan and Sam Ducane extend their hands to catch poppies, as they pose for photographs at the launch of the 1918 Poppy Pledge in a re-creation of a First World War trench at Pollock ...