List of War Poets in English Literature .

 

A War poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about their experiences or non-combatants who writes poems about war. These war poets are also called trench poets. The term war poetry predominantlyrepresents and symbolize the poetry that were written under the direct impact of World War I. It is also called anti-romantic. Earlier also we had war poets, however, after the World War I these kinds of poet and poetry came under the genre called ‘War Poetry‘.Most of the war poets of that time considered themselves as soldiers as well as poets. The poets used to write poetry in their leisure time and express their feelings, emotions, desires, happiness, grief and sorrow through writings.Below are the list of some major war poets;

 

Rupert Brooke (3 August 1887-23 April 1915) 

He was an English poet, and was known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially ‘The Soldier’. 

 

Siegfried Sassoon(8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) 

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was an English war poet, writer and soldier. He was adorned for the bravery on the Western Front, and he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. 

 

Wilfred Owen(18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) 

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was an English poet and soldier. Owen was one of the leading and prominent poets of the First World War.

 

Robert Graves(24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) 

Robert Von Ranke Graves was a British poet, historical novelist and critic.  

Robert Graves developed an early reputation as a war poet and was one of the first poet to write realistic poems about the experience of frontline conflict.

 

Edward Thomas(3 March 1878 – 9 April 191) 

Philip Edward Thomas was British poet, essayist and a novelist. Edward is considered a war poet, despite the fact that, few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences, and his career in poetry came after he had already been acknowledged as a successful writer and a literary critic.

 

 Isaac Rosenberg(25th November 1890-1st April 1918) 

Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet and artist. His poems from the ‘Trenches’ are perceived and recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. 

 

Sidney Keyes 

Sidney Keyes was one of the most renowned English poet of World War II. The poem ‘War Poet’ was written by Sidney Keyes.