Poems and Poets of the First World War
William Noel Hodgson
- Before Action (1916)
Ewart Alan Mackintosh, MC
- In Memoriam (1916)
Inspiration for the poem
John McCrae
- In Flanders Fields (1915)
Inspiration for the poem
Moina Michael
- We Shall Keep the Faith (1918)
Inspiration for the poem
John William Streets
- A Soldier's Cemetery (1916)
- Matthew Copse (1916)
Further Reading
Violets from Overseas: Portraits of Poets of the Great War
by Tonie Holt and Valmai Holt
An illustrated collection of poetry from the First World War, which includes biographical details of the poets in addition to examples of their work. The poets featured include John William Streets, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Robert Graves.
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A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-poets Killed in France and Flanders
by Anne Powell
Arranged by dates of death, this anthology gives the short life-and-death stories of 66 British poets killed in northern France and Belgium, including an account of the battle in which each died, with extracts from their poems, letters and diaries. The chronology begins with Robert Sterling, killed in April 1915; it ends with Wilfred Owen's death a week before the Armistice in 1918.
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Fierce Light: The Battle of the Somme, July-November 1916
by Anne Powell
A Selection of Prose and Poetry.
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