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World War I Poets

Poets who served and poets who did not serve, who contributed poetry to what is known as war poetry and 'the war poets'. 'Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads/Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads./Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth,/Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death.' (Wilfred Owen 'Arms and the Boy') h-e stated'What candles may be held to speed them all?/Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes/Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.' (Wilfred Owen 'Anthem for Doomed Youth') 'I shot him dead because—/Because he was my foe,/Just so: my foe of course he was;/That's clear enough; although/(next stanza)/He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,/Off-hand like—just as I—/Was out of work—had sold his traps—/No other reason why./(next stanza)/Yes; quaint and curious war is!/You shoot a fellow down/You'd treat, if met where any bar is,/Or help to half a crown.' (Thomas Hardy 'The Man He Killed')

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Richard Aldington

8 Jul 1892 – 27 Jul 1962

Sury-en-Vaux, Departement du Cher, Centre, France

Laurence Binyon

10 Aug 1869 – 10 Mar 1943

Poet. Born in Lancaster, the son of a clergyman,...

Aldworth, West Berkshire Unitary Authority, Berkshire, England

(Poet) Captain The Hon. Julian Henry Francis Grenfell

30 Mar 1888 – 26 May 1915

Boulogne-sur-Mer, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Plot info: II. A. 18.

Ivor Bertie Gurney

28 Aug 1890 – 26 Dec 1937

Twigworth, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England

Thomas Hardy

2 Jun 1840 – 11 Jan 1928

Author. Thomas Hardy was born in Higher...

Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England

Plot info: Poets' Corner

Rudyard Kipling

30 Dec 1865 – 18 Jan 1936

Author. Born the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a...

Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England

Plot info: Poets Corner (Cremated at Golders Green Crematorium)

Rudyard Kipling

30 Dec 1865 – 18 Jan 1936

Author. Born the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a...

Westminster, City of Westminster, Greater London, England

Plot info: Poets Corner (Cremated at Golders Green Crematorium)

Charlotte Mary Mew

15 Nov 1869 – 24 Mar 1928

Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England

Plot info: northern part of the cemetery

Sir Herbert Edward Read

4 Dec 1893 – 12 Jun 1968

Kirkdale, Ryedale District, North Yorkshire, England

Plot info: GPR grave number 106463

Isaac Rosenberg

25 Nov 1890 – 1 Apr 1918

Poet. Isaac Rosenberg, an English-Jewish poet, was...

Saint-Laurent-Blangy, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Plot info: Plot V

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