World War I was a conflict made for poetry, and it made a lot of it. But what did the soldiers themselves read?
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!
The Most Famous Poem of World War I
The most famous poem of World War I, “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae, lives on today as the genesis of the Memorial Poppy.
The Poetry of World War I
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.”