war-poet

Updated: May 14, 2025

It was a pleasure to throw this crowning achievement of experiments. It fitted your hand nicely; it threw easily; it did the business; it was fool-proof against a man in love or a war-poet. "We saw as soon as this style came out," said the sergeant, "that it was bound to be popular. Everybody asks for it except the Boches, sir." XXI My Best Day At The Front

Frederick Palmer - My Year of the War: Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and: the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the: First Time in its Complete Form

The ideas expressed here can be found in no other war-poet; they are idiosyncratic to the highest degree; yet the verse-forms in which they are written are stanzaic, as traditional as the most conservative critic could desire.

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

As the dreadful drama unrolled, Brownell rose to greater issues, and became the war-poet par excellence, the vigorous chronicler of great actions. He was fond of the sea, and ardently longed for the opportunity to witness, if not to participate in, a sea-fight. His desire was gratified in a singular way.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6

There were famous names in the list of Roman defenders Mameli, the war-poet, and Ugo Bassi, the great preacher, fought under Garibaldi, the leader of the future. Mazzini cried out on them that surrender was not for them. "Monarchies may capitulate, republics die and bear their testimony even to martyrdom."

Alice Birkhead - Heroes of Modern Europe