War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about...
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Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
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Wilfred Owen (category British Army personnel of World War I)
and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by...
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Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk...
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World War I poetry anthologies, A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914–1917 published in 1917, and Poems of the War and...
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Epic: The Poetry of War is the fifth studio album by the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm. Kataklysm Maurizio Iacono – vocals Stéphane Barbe – Bass...
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Jessie Pope (category English World War I poets)
Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Ian Hamilton, Oxford University Press, 1996. Women's Poetry of the First World War, Nosheen Khan, University...
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Vera Brittain (category British women in World War I)
memoirs of the First World War, including Testament of Youth [1] The Vera Brittain Collection in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive by Oxford University...
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Dylan Thomas (section War poetry)
Deaths and Entrances, the fourth volume of his poetry, published in 1946. The sentiments expressed in his war poems were, according to Professor Walford Davies...
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Winifred M. Letts (section Poetry)
America during the war, John William Cunliffe’s Poems of the Great War (1916) and George Herbert Clarke’s A Treasury of War Poetry (1917). Two lines from...
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Roland Leighton (category British Army personnel of World War I)
Collection in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive by Oxford University contains images of all Leighton's's War poetry manuscripts, letters to Vera...
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dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. This brief...
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character of a society in general. The poetry of Walt Whitman, for instance, reflects scenes of the American Civil War which occurred during his lifetime...
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Timothy Corsellis (category British civilians killed in World War II)
the debate on war poetry from 1939 to 1945" – and Ralph Townsend in The Trusty Servant – "The place of Corsellis among the Second War poets of England...
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1977) is a poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several...
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partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry. King David, traditionally credited with Biblical poetry in the Book of Psalms Homer: The Iliad Quintus...
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Edward Thomas (poet) (category British Army personnel of World War I)
a British writer of poetry and prose. He is sometimes considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. He only...
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Jeon Bonggeon (section War poetry in the 1950s)
senses. His poetry in the 1950s depicts the inhumane irrationality of the war and the desire for peace. The poems written based on the war do not show...
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W. D. Ehrhart (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War)
veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie:...
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horses in the war, and horses were featured in war poetry. Novels, plays and documentaries have also featured the horses of World War I. Many British...
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original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s (including poets such as Blas de Otero)...
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'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
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Buehlman's poetry has appeared in the Atlanta Review, and other literary and university publications. He was a finalist in the 2006 War Poetry Contest,...
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Itihasas; astronomy, magic, causation, and magic spells; the art of war; poetry; conveyancing in a word, the whole nineteen. As a disputant he was hard...
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Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number...
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Up the Line to Death (category War poetry)
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...
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Fluuers o the Forest (Roud 3812), is a Scottish folk tune and work of war poetry commemorating the defeat of the Scottish army, and the death of James...
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Siegfried Sassoon (category British Army personnel of World War I)
English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both...
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Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography (section Poetry)
the imagination of the public". The majority of Doyle's poetry falls into the genre of war poetry. Six volume work published over two years. Dudley Edwards...
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British Embassy in Paris, in July 2004, it aims to promote interest in war poetry of the twentieth century, primarily in English. It organises regular events...
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