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    War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about...
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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings...
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    World War I poetry anthologies, A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914–1917 published in 1917, and Poems of the War and...
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  • Arabic poetry (Arabic: الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk...
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    Wilfred Owen (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by...
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  • Jessie Pope (category English World War I poets)
    Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Ian Hamilton, Oxford University Press, 1996. Women's Poetry of the First World War, Nosheen Khan, University...
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    America during the war, John William Cunliffe’s Poems of the Great War (1916) and George Herbert Clarke’s A Treasury of War Poetry (1917). Two lines from...
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  • Epic: The Poetry of War is the fifth studio album by the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm. Kataklysm Maurizio Iacono – vocals Stéphane Barbe – Bass...
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    W. D. Ehrhart (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the Vietnam War)
    veteran. Ehrhart has been called "the dean of Vietnam war poetry." Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts, said Ehrhart's Vietnam–Perkasie:...
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    partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry. King David, traditionally credited with Biblical poetry in the Book of Psalms Homer: The Iliad Quintus...
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    dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. This brief...
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    character of a society in general. The poetry of Walt Whitman, for instance, reflects scenes of the American Civil War which occurred during his lifetime...
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    in literary tradition. At the time of the Civil War, poetry had been dominated by metaphysical poetry of the John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Lovelace...
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    Edward Thomas (poet) (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    a British writer of poetry and prose. He is sometimes considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences. He only...
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  • original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s (including poets such as Blas de Otero)...
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    Laurence Binyon (category English World War I poets)
    After the war, he continued his career at the British Museum, writing numerous books on art. He was appointed Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University...
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    Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both...
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    (non-fiction), Short story, Children's book, Verse (poetry), Article. List of World War I video games List of World War II films ^† This English language title is...
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  • British Embassy in Paris, in July 2004, it aims to promote interest in war poetry of the twentieth century, primarily in English. It organises regular events...
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  • summer. His poetry has appeared in the Atlanta Review, and other literary and university publications. He was a finalist in the 2006 War Poetry Contest,...
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    'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of...
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    This article focuses on poetry from the UK written in the English language. The article does not cover poetry from other countries where the English language...
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    Classical Chinese poetry is traditional Chinese poetry written in Classical Chinese and typified by certain traditional forms, or modes; traditional genres;...
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    Siegfried Sassoon (category British Army personnel of World War I)
    English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both...
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  • senses. His poetry in the 1950s depicts the inhumane irrationality of the war and the desire for peace. The poems written based on the war do not show...
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  • Up the Line to Death (category War poetry)
    Death: The War Poets 1914–1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a thematic collection of the poetry of World...
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    Nick Flynn (section Poetry)
    ISBN 978-0807025581 ["My Mother Contemplating Her Gun"] Inheriting the War; Poetry & Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees, Laren McClung...
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    Vera Brittain (category British women in World War I)
    memoirs of the First World War, including Testament of Youth [1] The Vera Brittain Collection in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive by Oxford University...
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  • Fluuers o the Forest (Roud 3812), is a Scottish folk tune and work of war poetry commemorating the defeat of the Scottish army, and the death of James...
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  • Gerald Dawe (section Poetry)
    Irish poetry and cultural issues, much of which is collected in his prose works: The Proper Word: Collected Criticism (2007), Of War and War's Alarms:...
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