World War I Poets
The memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, to 16 Great War poets is a slate stone slab with the names of the poets inscribed on it. It was unveiled on 11 November 1985, the 67th anniversary of the Armistice. An additional inscription quotes Owen's "Preface":
| “ | My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. | ” |
| Image | Poet | Born | Died | Age when war started |
Notes on war service |
Notes on poetry |
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| Richard Aldington | 1892 | 1962 | 22 | Enlisted 1916 Commissioned 1917 Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment |
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| ... | Laurence Binyon | 1869 | 1943 | 44 | Volunteered in 1915 and 1916 Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois British hospital for French soldiers |
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| Edmund Blunden | 1896 | 1974 | 17 | Commissioned August 1915 Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment |
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| Rupert Brooke † | 1887 | 1915 | 27 | Commissioned August 1914 Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
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| ... | Wilfrid Gibson | 1878 | 1962 | 35 | Rejected several times Enlisted October 1917 Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) Never saw active service |
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| ... | Robert Graves | 1895 | 1985 | 19 | Commissioned 1914 Royal Welch Fusiliers |
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| Julian Grenfell † | 1888 | 1915 | 26 | Commissioned 1910 Captain (at time of death) Royal Dragoons |
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| ... | Ivor Gurney | 1890 | 1937 | 23 | Private Gloucestershire Regiment |
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| ... | David Jones | 1895 | 1974 | 18 | Royal Welch Fusiliers | ... |
| ... | Robert Nichols | 1893 | 1944 | 20 | Commissioned 1914 Royal Artillery |
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| Wilfred Owen † | 1893 | 1918 | 21 | Enlisted 1915 Commissioned June 1916 Second Lieutenant Manchester Regiment |
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| 100px | Herbert Read | 1893 | 1968 | 20 | Captain Green Howards |
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| Isaac Rosenberg † | 1890 | 1918 | 23 | Enlisted October 1915 12th Suffolk Folk Regiment King's Own Royal Lancaster |
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| Siegfried Sassoon | 1886 | 1967 | 27 | Enlisted 1914 Commissioned May 1915 Captain (at end of war) Royal Welch Fusiliers |
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| Charles Sorley † | 1895 | 1915 | 19 | Enlisted 1914 Captain (at time of death) Suffolk Regiment |
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| Edward Thomas † | 1878 | 1917 | 36 | Enlisted July 1915 Artists Rifles Commissioned November 1916 Royal Garrison Artillery |
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