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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 (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...
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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. Present knowledge of written poetry in Arabic...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    horses in the war, and horses were featured in war poetry. Novels, plays and documentaries have also featured the horses of World War I. Many British...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Kryvtsov wrote poetry since he was a teenager. He was published in collections with works by other authors—"The Book of Love 2.0. Love and War", "Where I...
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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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    '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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    Literature of the First World War (2005) ISBN 0521821452 Stallworthy, Jon, Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War (2002) ISBN 0786710985 Vance...
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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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    the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust. She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. Levertov was...
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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. It is not equivalent...
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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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  • over the post-war period, particularly for the BBC in the West Country, and as the presenter for many years of the BBC Radio 4 series Poetry Please. An intensely...
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    Whitman, famous eulogies to Lincoln Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) poetry by Herman Melville The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government...
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