P O E T S
who served in the
FIRST WORLD WAR ~
"We came down to the front of the Twelfth Army, back of Riga,
where gaunt and bootless men sickened in the mud
of desperate trenches; and when they saw us they started up,
with their pinched faces and flesh showing blue
through their torn clothing, demanding eagerly,
'Did you
bring anything to read!"
John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
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NOTE: All writers featured in this section served in some capacity in the First World War
or Russian Revolution, whether in the military, medical corps, relief work, or as a war
correspondent.
A
primary source for information on these individuals is Tim Cross's The Lost Voices
of World War I (University of Iowa Press, 1988), an anthology and compendium more
comprehensive than
any collection we have seen of individuals in the arts who died in the war, but which lists
no survivors of the war. Other primary sources employed are A. St. John Adcock's
For Remembrance: Soldier Poets Who Have Fallen in the War (Hodder & Stoughton, 1918), Robert Giddings'
The War Poets (Orion Books, 1988), Martin Stephen's Never Such Innocence: A New Anthology
of Great War Verse (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1991), and Anne Powell's A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-Poets
Killed in France and Flanders (Palladour Books, 1993). Beyond these anthologies, we have consulted a wide range of
sources, a full bibliographical listing of which will be provided in the near future.
A list of poets eventually to be found on this site is given below.
Depending
on your browser, individuals for which a separate information page already exists are shown in green,
or underlined. To access information about them, as well as books by or about them (if we have them), simply
click on their names. Individuals for which a page is not yet prepared are shown in black. Names of individuals who survived the war are preceded by a green star  . Names of those
who died in the war are preceded by a black star  . Names of those who survived the war, but who were
wounded, gassed or shell-shocked are preceded by a red cross  .
Additional poets will be added to this section on a continual basis.
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**** Edmond Adam (French),
Kurd Adler (German),
Charles Jean Ajalbert (French),
Gabriela d'Annunzio (Italian),
Gordon Alchin (English),
Richard Aldington (English),
Jean Allard-Meus (French),
H.B.K. Allpass (English),
Pierre Amar (French),
Guillaume Apollonaire, pseud of Wilhelm de Kostrowitsky (French),
Pierre Ancher (French),
Maxime d'Andre (French),
Jean Arbousset (French),
Emile Arne (French),
Paul-A. Arnold (French),
Dominique Arramond (French),
Henry Asquith (English),
Georges Audibert (French),
Rene Audigier (French),
Jacques Desormeaux Baguenier (French),
Jack Baker (English),
"Jacques Balder", pseud of Georges David (French),
Georges Bannerot (French),
Peter Baum (German),
Jean Beaufort (French),
Harold Beckh (English),
Jean-Baptiste Begarie (French),
Ferene Bekassy (Austro-Hungarian),
Francisque-Anatole Belval-Delahaye (French),
Hernan de Bengoechea (French-Colombian),
Gottfried Benn (German),
Edouard Bernard (French),
Jean-Marc Bernard (French),
William Eric Berridge (English),
Adrien Bertrand (French),
Maurice Bertrand (French),
Paul Bewsher (English),
Andre Biguet (French),
Lawrence Binyon (English),
John Peale Bishop (American),
Marcel Blanchard (French),
Francis Kennard Bliss (English),
Alexandr Blok (Russian),
Fritz Blume (German),
Edmund Blunden (English),
Bernhard Bockeler (German),
Jean Boine (French),
Henri de Boisanger (French),
Milutin Bojic (Serbian),
Louis Bonfils (French),
Henri Bonneaud (French),
Maurice Bouignol (French),
Marcel Bource (French),
Joseph Bourgeois (French),
Pierre Boutet (French),
John Graham Bower, pseu: "Klaxon" (English),
Leon Boyer (French),
Jos ar Bras, pseud: "Dirlem" (French-Breton),
Otto Braun (German),
Horace Bray (Canadian),
Andre Breton (French),
Andre Breval (French),
Francis Brett-Young (English),
Everard Lindesay Brine (English),
Vera Brittain (English),
Heinrich Broichsitter (German),
Brian Brooke, pseud: "Korongo" (Scottish),
Rupert Brooke (English),
Frank S. Brown (English),
John Brown (Scottish),
John Buchan (English),
Aristide-Louis-Armand Bruant (French),
Roger Brunel (French),
Victor Burney (Belgian),
Joseph Cahn (French),
Jean-Pierre Calloc'h (French-Breton),
T.P. Cameron-Wilson (English),
Ivar Campbell (Scottish),
Alex de Candole (English),
Mary Wedderburn Cannan (English),
Frank Carbaugh (American),
Charles Carrau (French),
Blaise Cendrars, pseud of Frederic Sauser (French),
Karel Viktor Cervinka (Czech),
Jacques de Champfeu (French),
Ary-Henri Chardon (French),
Henri Chassin (French),
Henri Chervet (French),
Edouard Chiesa (French),
Jacques de Choudens (French),
Henri Cocardas (French),
Jean Cocteau (French),
Henri Colin (French),
Maurice Colin (French),
Etienne Collet (French),
Christophe Colombe (French),
Auguste Compagnon (French),
Charles Compodonico (French),
Leonard Niell Cook (English),
Noel Marcus Francis Corbett (English),
Henri de Corbie (French),
Pierre Corbin (French),
Pierre Corrard (French),
Raymond Cottineau (French),
Marcel Cousinery (French),
Leslie A. Coulson (English),
S. Donald Cox (English),
Amede Cozic, pseud: "Karedik" (French-Breton),
"A. Scott Craven", pseud of A.K. Harvey James (English),
Eugen Crombie (English),
E.E. Cummings (American),
Rene Dalize, pseud: "Rene Dupuy" (French),
Max Berthold Danselow (German),
Louis Darmet (French),
Miles Jeffrey Game Day (English),
Geoffrey Dearmer (English),
Dimcho Debelyanov (Bulgarian),
Richard Dennys (English),
Robert A. Donaldson (American),
Pierre Driue La Rochelle (French),
George C. Duggan (Irish),
Antoine Dujardin (French),
Paul Eluard (French),
Ilya Ehrenburg (Russian),
Gerrit Engleke (German),
Ellis Evans (Welsh),
James Griffyth Fairfax (Australian),
F.S. Flint (English),
Gilbert Frankau (English),
Hugh Reginald "Rex" Freston (English),
Crosbie Garstin (English),
Edward John Langford Garston (English),
Leon Gellert (Australian),
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (English),
Robert Graves (English),
Julien Grenfell (English),
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (Russian),
Ronald Gurner (English),
Ivor Bertie Gurney (English),
Alan Patrick Herbert (English),
William Noel Hodgson (English),
Cyril Morton Horne (Scottish),
S.S. Hunt (English),
Dyneley Hussey (English),
Lessel Hutcheon (English),
Franz Janowitz (German),
Donald Frederic Goold Johnson (English),
David Jones (English),
Wilfred Joseph (English),
Pierre-Jean Jouve (French),
Tom Kettle (Irish),
Joyce Kilmer (American),
Wilhelm Klemm (German),
Oskar Kokoschka (Austro-Hungarian),
Francis Ledwidge (Irish),
Joseph Johnston Lee (English),
Rolland Aubrey Leighton (English),
Alfred Lichtenstein (German),
Eric Linklater (Welsh),
W.H. Little-John (English),
Walter Scott Stuart Lyon (Scottish),
John McCrae (Canadian),
Patrick MacGill (English),
Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Scottish),
Archibald MacLeish (American),
Arthur James "Hamish" Mann (English),
Frederic Manning (Australian),
Charles John Beech Masefield (English),
John Masefield (English),
Albert Michel (German),
Alan Alexander Milne (English),
Harold Monro (English),
Charles Edward Montague (English),
Francis St Vincent Morris (English),
Eugenio Montale (Italian),
Ralph Hale Mottram (English),
Hector Hugh Munro, pseud: "Saki" (English),
Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (English),
Wilfred Owen (English),
Nowell Oxland (English),
Harold Parry (English),
Charles Peguy (French),
Adolf Petrenz (German),
Vivian Telfer Pemberton (English),
Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps (English),
Sidney Walter Powell (English),
Herbert Read (English),
John Reed (American),
John Edgell Rickword (English),
Rainier Maria Rilke (Austro-Hungarian),
Alexander Robertson (Scottish),
Isaac Rosenberg (English),
Georg Trakl (Austro-Hungarian),
J.M. Rose-Troup (English),
Wilhelm Runge (German),
Owen Rutter, pseud: "Klip-Klip" (English),
Siegfried Sassoon (English),
Anton Schnack (German),
Robert William Service (Canadian),
Charles Kenneth Michael Scott-Montcrieff (Scottish),
Alan Seeger (American),
Edward Richard Buxton Shanks (English),
Patrick Shaw-Stewart (English),
August Stramm (German),
William Ambrose Short (English),
Henry Lamont Simpson (English),
Osbert Sitwell (English),
Tom Skeyhill (Australian),
Charles Hamilton Sorley (Scottish),
Edward de Stein (English),
Gertrude Stein (American),
Robert Sterling (Scottish),
John Still (English),
John William Streets (English),
G.A. Studdert-Kennedy, pseud: "Woodbine Willy" (English),
Edward "Bim" Tennant (English),
Edward Thomas (English),
Nikolay Tikhonov (Russian),
Albert Ernest Tomlinson (English),
Ernst Toller (German),
Bernard Freeman Trotter (Canadian),
Walter Jalmes Redfern Turner (Australian),
Giuseppe Ungaretti (Italian),
Robert Ernest Vernede (English),
Franz Werfel (Austro-Hungarian),
Arthur Graeme West (English),
F. E. Westbook (Australian),
Edith Wharton (American),
Amos N. Wilder (American),
Edmund Wilson (American),
T.P. Cameron Wilson (English),
Friedrich Wolf (German),
John Allan Wyeth (American),
Edward Hilton Young (English),
Stefan Zweig (Austro-Hungarian),
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