List of war poets explained
This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry.
Pre-1500
The Iliad
Posthomerica
Shahnameh
Y Gododdin
The Brus
The Wallace
1500 - 1800
The Flowers of the Forest
Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib
Vazetje Sigeta grada
Szigeti veszedelem
Odiljenje sigetsko
Là Sliabh an t-Siorraim, Alistair à Gleanna Garadh
Mo Ghile Mear
Paul Revere's Ride
Concord Hymn
1800 - 1914
Alipashiad
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
"Lichtenberg"[3]
"My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"[4]
First World War
Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht
Requiem. Für die Gefallenen von Europa
In Flanders Fields
Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
"On being asked for a War Poem"
"Rouge Bouquet"
We Shall Keep the Faith[6]
Interwar period
Second World War
"Todesfuge"
Korean War and later
External links
Notes and 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.
- [C. E. Carrington|Carrington, C. E.]
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- Dana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth: Soldier Poet, St Austin Review, March/April 2020. p. 4.
- Web site: Moina Michael . Digital Library of Georgia . 8 February 2012.
- News: Proffer. Carl R.. Russia in Prussia. The New York Times. 7 August 1977.
- Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, edited by W. D. Ehrhart. (Texas Tech University Press, 1989)
