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 S...