List of war poets
This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry.
Pre-1500
- King Book of Psalms
- The Iliad
- Quintus of Smyrna: Posthomerica
1500–1800
- The Flowers of the Forest
- Szigeti veszedelem
- Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
1800–1914
- Haxhi Shehreti: Alipashiad
- Awenydd
- Abram Ryan
- Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"[3]
- Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"[4]
First World War
- Charles Peguy
- Blaise Cendrars
- Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
- Yann-Ber Kalloc'h
- Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
- Nikolay Gumilyov
- Anna Akhmatova
- Leon Gellert
- John O'Donnell
- John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
- Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
- William Butler Yeats: "On being asked for a War Poem"
Interwar period
- Roy Campbell
- Uys Krige
- Federico García Lorca
- José María Hinojosa Lasarte
- Antonio Machado
- Manuel Machado
Second World War
- Anna Akhmatova
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn[7]
- Ryuichi Tamura
- Sadako Kurihara
Korean War and later
- Rolando Hinojosa
- William Wantling
- Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
- Michael Casey
- W. D. Ehrhart
- Richard Wilbur
- Rob Jacques
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Bruce Weigl[8]
- Caitlín Maude
- Brian Turner
- Erika Renee Land
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.
- Doubleday & Co., p. 236
- ^ Slovoto, https://www.slovo.bg/old/f/en/botev/index.htm
- 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)