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...

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...

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...

Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Ian Hamilton, Oxford University Press, 1996. Women's Poetry of the First World War, Nosheen Khan, University...

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...

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...

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...

Deaths and Entrances, the fourth volume of his poetry, published in 1946. The sentiments expressed in his war poems were, according to Walford Davies, representative...

Epic: The Poetry of War is the fifth studio album by the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm. Kataklysm Maurizio Iacono – vocals Stéphane Barbe – Bass...

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...

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...

in literary tradition. At the time of the Civil War, poetry had been dominated by metaphysical poetry of the John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Lovelace...

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...

Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry written in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms, or modes; traditional genres;...

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...

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)...

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...

After the war, he continued his career at the British Museum, writing numerous books on art. He was appointed Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University...

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...

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...

University Press published a long series of poetry anthologies, dealing in particular with British poetry but not restricted to it, after the success...

American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the...

veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie:...

This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the...

the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Levertov was...

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...

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...

'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...

over the post-war period, particularly for the BBC in the West Country, and as the presenter for many years of the BBC Radio 4 series Poetry Please. An intensely...

(1978) Out of Battle, the Poetry of the Great War (1978) The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (1979), editor New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology...