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War Poets and Poems

Meet a variety of war poets and read war poems, including some surprising names like C.S. Lewis and Mary Borden.

Includes World War I poets and poems, plus the American Civil War. Also, discover the most famous poem of World War I!

Poets and Poems: Julien Vocance and “One Hundred Visions of War”

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Ice on twig Vocance One Hundred Visions of War

“One Hundred Visions of War” by Julien Vocance uses the haiku form to deliver a powerful picture of war.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Haiku, Haiku Poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, war poems

J.D. McClatchy Tells the Story of the Civil War — in Poetry

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“Poets of the Civil War” by J.D. McClatchy is a small volume that manages to capture the magnitude of the American Civil War.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Poems, poetry, Poets, Walt Whitman, war poems

C.S. Lewis: World War I Poet

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

In 1919, C.S. Lewis published a volume of poetry under a pseudonym. The collection reflected his experiences in World War I.

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“Robert Graves” – A Biography of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

By Glynn Young 1 Comment

Forest Robert Graves

Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s new biography of war poet Robert Graves allows the reader to walk in his shoes and understand his poetry and his odd personal life.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Britain, poetry, Poets, war poems

Poetry, World War I, and Armistice Day

By Glynn Young 8 Comments

Birch Grove World War I poetry

World War I is the war most closely associated with poetry; poetry characterized the war, and the war changed poetry unlike any war before or since.

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World War I: Mary Borden – Nurse, Novelist, Poet

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

Poppies Mary Borden World War I

American Mary Borden married a missionary, financed a hospital in World War I France, had an affair, published novels — and wrote poetry.

Filed Under: article, Blog, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Sonnets, war poems

Using Poetry to Reflect Upon the Civil War – Part 3: Walt Whitman

By Glynn Young 4 Comments

Divided field Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman celebrated the beginning of the Civil War, like many Americans on both sides. But as it dragged on, he — and his poetry — changed.

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Alan Seeger: The American Poet in World War I

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

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One of the most famous poems to emerge from World War I was written by an American. Alan Seeger wrote “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” shortly before he died.

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Francis Ledwidge: Reconsidering a War Poet

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Rocks on beach Francis Ledwidge

Irish poet Francis Ledwidge is not one of the better known poets of World War I, because he was an Irishman who fought for the British Army.

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The Walt Whitman Award: “Afterland” by Mai Der Vang

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

Dancing Bokeh Afterland Man Der Vang

In “Afterland,” winner of the Walt Whitman Award, poet Mai Der Vang explores what happened to the Hmong people after the Vietnam War.

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Poetry and World War I: It Wasn’t Only England

By Glynn Young 5 Comments

Sunset World War I Poetry

“Everything to Nothing” by Geert Buelens provides a fascinating look into the breadth and depth of the role poetry played in World War I.

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Now All Roads Lead to France: Robert Frost’s Regrettable Poem Surprise

By L.L. Barkat 14 Comments

Road on a stormy day - The Power of Poetry

Within the single poem “The Road Not Taken” is a whole relationship; in it, one sees the way that relationship unfolded for Edward Thomas and Robert Frost.

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Charles Sorley and the Poetry of World War I

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

Charles Sorley (1895-1915) was a poet whose “When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead” was one of the best-known poems of World War I.

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The World War I Poets in the War

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Max Egremont’s “Some Desperate Glory” combines history, biography and poetry to describe the World War I that the war poets experienced.

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Poets and Poems: Siegfried Sassoon and “The War Poems”

By Glynn Young 6 Comments

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Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived World War I and went on to a successful literary career, but he is best remembered for “the War Poems.”

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The Poems the Soldiers Read in World War I

By Glynn Young 10 Comments

World War I was a conflict made for poetry, and it made a lot of it. But what did the soldiers themselves read?

Filed Under: Courage Poems, Humanity Poems, Poems, poetry, Poets, war poems

The Most Famous Poem of World War I

By Glynn Young 9 Comments

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The most famous poem of World War I, “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, lives on today as the genesis of the Memorial Poppy.

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The Poetry of World War I

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

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Tim Kendall’s anthology “Poetry of the First World War” explains how poetry came to be so connected with “the war to end all wars.”

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