Which poet was killed a week before the end of World War I?
"the impression of World War I poetry. This selection tends to emphasise the horror of war, suffering, tragedy and anger against those that wage war. In the early weeks of the war, British poets responded with an outpouring of literary production. Rudyard Kipling's ""For all we have and are"" was syndicated extensively by newspapers in English speaking countries. Robert Bridges contributed a poem ""Wake Up, England!"" at the outbreak of war that he later wished suppressed., John Masefield, who later succeeded Bridges as poet laureate, wrote ""August, 1914"", a poem that was admired widely. Wilfred Owen was killed in battle;"
"Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English 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 described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his ""Soldier's Declaration"" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military"
"Alec de Candole Alexander Corry Vully de Candole (usually known as Alec de Candole) (26 January 1897 – 3 September 1918), was a World War I poet . ""We set off for the Aubigny Communal Cemetery, where we were to visit the graves of Alexander de Candole and Hamish Mann. The focus today was to look at the work of those poets who were deeply troubled by the attitude of the Church towards the war. Most of us are familiar with Sassoon's biting satire directed at the Church, but I knew little of de Candole, who wrote a book entitled"
"Alec de Candole Alexander Corry Vully de Candole (usually known as Alec de Candole) (26 January 1897 – 3 September 1918), was a World War I poet . ""We set off for the Aubigny Communal Cemetery, where we were to visit the graves of Alexander de Candole and Hamish Mann. The focus today was to look at the work of those poets who were deeply troubled by the attitude of the Church towards the war. Most of us are familiar with Sassoon's biting satire directed at the Church, but I knew little of de Candole, who wrote a book entitled"
"Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the details of the death"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet 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 heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"London periodical ""Polar Star"". Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the"
"the psychiatrist responsible for Sassoon's treatment. Rivers became a kind of surrogate father to the troubled young man, and his sudden death in 1922 was a major blow to Sassoon. Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English 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 described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for"
"Author Chris Dickon wrote what is widely considered the definitive biography of Seeger in 2017, ""A Rendezvous With Death: Alan Seeger In Poetry, At War"". Dickon spoke about Seeger and his work at the American Library, Paris, shortly after the publication of his book. Alan Seeger Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the brother of Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist. He is best known for the poem ""I"
"Itzik Feffer Itzik Feffer (September 10, 1900 – August 12, 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod ""uyezd"" (district) of Kiev guberniya, Imperial Russia. During the Second World War, he was a military reporter with the rank of colonel and was vice chairman of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He and Solomon Mikhoels traveled to the United States in 1943 in a well-documented fund-raising trip. In 1948,"
"Gilbert Waterhouse Gilbert Waterhouse (22 January 1883 – 1 July 1916), was an English architect and, later, war poet. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, in World War I, while serving as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Bn Essex Regiment. A volume of his poems ""Rail-Head and other poems"" (including the poems ""Rail-Head"" and ""Bivouacs"") was published posthumously in 1916. Waterhouse was born the third child of seven at Chatham Kent on 22 January 1883, his father being a shipbroker. He was educated at Bancroft's School from 1894–1900 and then at the"
"necessarily ""a ""very"" short time"", the date of Ginczanka's death could be pushed back to December 1944, but this procedure would involve stretching the literal meaning of the words of these two key witnesses. Wacław Iwaniuk, a personal acquaintance of Ginczanka, strongly corroborates our dating of Ginczanka's death: in an interview given in 1991, Iwaniuk states: ""Ginczanka was murdered by the Gestapo in Kraków, ""probably on the last day of Kraków's occupation"""" (""chyba w ostatnim dniu okupacji Krakowa"") ""i.e."", on 17 January 1945. Her single best known poem, written in 1942 and untitled, commonly referred to as ""Non omnis moriar"""
"""forward slopes point 102"". Shortly after the war his remains were reburied at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery (14 km south of Bayeux) in plot 1, row E, grave number 2. A one-man play about Douglas and his work, entitled ""Unicorns, almost"", written by Owen Sheers, premiered at the Hay Festival in May 2018. Keith Douglas Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, ""Alamein to Zem Zem"". He was killed in action during the invasion of"
"a poem, ""Goodnight Kiss"", by writer Philip Parker. Leeds Civic Trust and partners are to unveil a memorial plaque to him at Leeds Central railway station in November 2018 and, as of September 2018, were running a crowd-funder campaign to that end. George Edwin Ellison George Edwin Ellison (10 August 1878 – 11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War. He died at 09:30 am (90 minutes before the armistice came into effect) while on a patrol on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium. Ellison was born in York and later"
"the war or before he arrived at the front. Some half a dozen are ""trench"" poems displaying powers of observation, precise expression and emerging satiric humour.Comment by David Giles Bancroft's School, Head of English (retired) One of the more famous poems in the book is ""Bivouacs"". He is commemorated at Bancroft's School on the World War I War Memorial Honours Board, and a fuller biography is available online here Gilbert Waterhouse Gilbert Waterhouse (22 January 1883 – 1 July 1916), was an English architect and, later, war poet. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of the"
"Keith Douglas Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, ""Alamein to Zem Zem"". He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy. Douglas described his poetic style as ""extrospective""; that is, he focused on external impressions rather than inner emotions. The result is a poetry which, according to his detractors, can be callous in the midst of war's atrocities. For others, Douglas's work is powerful and unsettling because its exact descriptions eschew egotism"
"T. S. Eliot. In November 1985, a slate memorial was unveiled in Poet's Corner commemorating sixteen poets of the Great War: Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley and Edward Thomas. Some Irish World War I poets include: Tom Kettle, Francis Ledwidge, John O'Donnell, W. B. Yeats, and Katharine Tynan. Kettle's best known poem is a sonnet, ""To My Daughter Betty, the Gift of God"", written just days before his death. The last lines are an answer"
"is considered one of the greatest Soviet poets in the Yiddish language and his poems were widely admired inside and outside Russia. His epic poem (""The Shadows of the Warsaw Ghetto"" is a tribute to the 750 Jews who rebelled against the Nazi liquidation of the ghetto and gave their lives fighting tyranny during World War II. Itzik Feffer Itzik Feffer (September 10, 1900 – August 12, 1952), also Fefer (Yiddish איציק פֿעפֿער, Russian Ицик Фефер, Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер) was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born"
"September 1915, finally dying from the injury on 7 October. Day's collected poems were published post-war, and two of his poems were anthologized in ""A Treasury of War Poetry, British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919"", edited by George Herbert Clarke, and also in ""Cambridge Poets 1914-1920: an Anthology"", compiled by Edward Davison, published in 1920. Jeffery Day Flight Commander Miles Jeffery Game Day , (1 December 1896 – 27 February 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories, and also a war poet. Jeffery Day, as he was commonly known, was born"
"Mordechai Gebirtig Mordechai Gebirtig (), born Mordecai Bertig (4 May 1877 – 4 June 1942), was an influential Yiddish poet and songwriter of the interwar period. He was killed by a bullet in the Kraków Ghetto, which was set up by Nazi Germany formally on 3 March 1941 in the new General Government district of occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. Mordechai Gebirtig was born in Kraków under the Austrian Partition, and lived in its Jewish working-class quarter all his life. He served for five years in the Austro-Hungarian army. Gebirtig became the renown folk artist in Yiddish literature and song"
"Somme. On July 4 during the siege of Belloy-en-Santerre, the 3rd Battalion was completely destroyed and lost their commandant. In this battle American poet Alan Seeger was also killed. He had volunteered for the French Foreign Legion throughout the duration of the World War I and was the author of the poem ""I Have A Rendez-vous with Death"". On July 7, the 1st battalion launched the attack on Boyau de Chancelier and lost the battalion commandant. Mid-July, the regiment only counted three combat companies per battalion and was pulled back from the front to reconstitute battle formations. From July 4"
"a transfer to one of the all-Jewish battalions formed in Mesopotamia, but historians have been unable to track his application. On 21 March 1918 the German Army started its Spring Offensive on the Western Front. A week later, Rosenberg sent his last letter with a poem ""Through These Pale Cold Days"" to England before going to the front lines with reinforcements. Having just finished night patrol, he was killed on the night of 1 April 1918 with another ten KORL soldiers; there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close"
"have less literary merit, and are overshadowed by his support for the Nazis. He moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1937, and joined the Wehrmacht (German Army) in 1944. He was captured by US forces. After the Second World War, he settled to Kahl am Main, where he later died in 1973. Anton Schnack Anton Schnack (21 July 1892 – 26 September 1973) was a German writer. He joined the German Army when World War I began. He is one of the leading German war poets of the First World War, and has been compared with English poet Wilfred Owen."
"Patrick Shaw-Stewart Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was an Eton College (1901-1906) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907-1910) scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the British Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his poem ""Achilles in the Trench"", one of the best-known war poems of the First World War. He was born in Aber Artro Hall, near Llanbedr, Wales. His career was one of great academic brilliance, matched by a steely determination to succeed. He came first"
"Leib Kvitko Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko (, ) (October 15, 1890 – August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). He was one of the editors of ""Eynikayt"" (the JAC's newspaper) and of the ""Heymland"", a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Kvitko was rehabilitated in 1955. He was born in a Ukrainian shtetl, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (Cheder) and"
"Homenaje a Federico García Lorca On 19 August 1936, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was murdered by fascist militia forces. Outraged, along with many other intellectuals and artists, in October Revueltas composed """", one of his most important works, which was premiered on 14 November 1936 conducted by the composer (; ). It was given its first Spanish performance at the in Madrid on 17 September 1937 . The work is scored for a chamber orchestra of piccolo, E clarinet, two trumpets, trombone, tuba, tamtam, xylophone, piano, two violins, and double bass. The absence of low woodwinds, violas, and"
"the commission, which gave him complete freedom in deciding what to compose. He chose to set the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war by the English poet Wilfred Owen. Owen, who was born in 1893, was serving as the commander of a rifle company when he was killed in action on 4 November 1918 during the crossing of the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, just one week before the Armistice. Although he was virtually unknown at the time of his death, he has subsequently come to be revered as one of the great war poets."
"André Chénier André Marie Chénier (30 October 176225 July 1794) was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed ""crimes against the state"", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera ""Andrea Chénier"" and other works of art. Chénier was born in the Galata"
"Julian Grenfell Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO (30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915) was a British soldier and poet of World War I. Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane. He was educated at Eton where he was good friends with Denys Finch Hatton, and latterly with Patrick Shaw-Stewart. From Eton he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he bullied Philip Sassoon by cracking a stock whip within inches of his head. Grenfell joined the army in 1910"
"purging of the works. Fellow soldier and poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson dedicated a poem to Browne in his 1916 volume of poems entitled ""Battle, and other Poems"". The surviving works are: William Denis Browne William Charles Denis Browne (3 November 1888 – 4 June 1915), primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century. He and his close friend, poet Rupert Brooke, were commissioned into the Royal Naval Division together shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Denis Browne was killed"
"Front; always sent by OHL to the area of crisis"". Siegfried Sassoon makes reference to the battle in the poem . The Anglo-Welsh lyric poet Edward Thomas was killed by a shell on 9 April 1917, during the first day of the Easter Offensive. Thomas's war diary gives a vivid and poignant picture of life on the Western front in the months leading up to the battle. The composer Ernest John Moeran was wounded during the attack on Bullecourt on 3 May 1917. Books Newspapers Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of"
"Leslie Coulson Leslie Coulson (19 July 1889 – 8 October 1916) was an English journalist and a poet of the First World War. Coulson was born in Kilburn, London, his father being a columnist for ""The Sunday Chronicle"". Leslie and his brother attended boarding school in Norfolk, and Leslie then worked as a reporter on the ""Evening News"". He joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1914 and saw service in Malta, Egypt and Gallipoli, before arriving at the Western Front in 1916. Coulson was fatally wounded at the Battle of Le Transloy, and died the next day. He is buried at"
"and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Charles Sorley Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War, where he was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915. Born in Powis House Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, and then like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident"