The Scarborough hotel where Britain’s greatest World War One poet wrote poetry months before being killed on the front line ...

“It is nearly two years ago, that my dear eldest son went out to the War for the last time,” she wrote, “and the day he said Goodbye to me … my poet son said these wonderful words of yours … ‘when I ...

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...

The First World War saw an outburst of poetic creativity unmatched in European history. Fueled by bitter anger at a war that destroyed the comfortable world of Victorian prosperity and complacency, ...

Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale was a 1-hour 2007 BBC documentary on the life of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. It was presented by Jeremy Paxman and starred Samuel Barnett as Owen and ...

Midway through his stunning new book “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad,” author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from the Times of London on Aug. 18, 1917: “The war has brought new opportunities of heroism to ...

IN A comprehensive anthology of more than 400 pages, Mr. Williams has tried to include all the best poems written about war in the present century. He includes Hardy and Yeats, eight poets of the last ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...