List of war poets
This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.
Pre-1500
- King David, traditionally credited with Biblical poetry in the Book of Psalms
1500–1800
- Sìleas na Ceapaich: Là Sliabh an t-Siorraim, Alistair à Gleanna Garadh
- Cionneach MacCionnich[2]
1800–1914
- Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"[3]
First World War
- Yvan Goll: Requiem. Für die Gefallenen von Europa
- Leon Gellert
- John O'Donnell
- John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
- Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
- Pàdraig Moireasdan
- Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
- Hedd Wyn
Interwar period
Second World War
- Yrjö Jylhä
- Calum MacNeacail
Korean War and later
References
- Edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle (2020), North American Gaels: Speech, Song, and Story in the Diaspora, McGill-Queen's University Press. Page 14.
- Edited by Michael Newton (2015), Seanchaidh na Coille: Memory-Keeper of the Forest, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 52–59.
- Carrington, C. E., (1955) The life of Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday & Co., p. 236
- Dana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth: Soldier Poet, St Austin Review, March/April 2020. p. 4.
- "Moina Michael". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- Proffer, Carl R. (7 August 1977). "Russia in Prussia". The New York Times.
- Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, edited by W. D. Ehrhart. (Texas Tech University Press, 1989)
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