This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry.
Pre-1500
King David, traditionally credited with Biblical poetry in the Book of Psalms
Homer: The Iliad
Quintus of Smyrna: Posthomerica
Ferdowsi: Shahnameh
Aneirin: Y Gododdin
John Barbour: The Brus
Blind Harry: The Wallace
1500–1800
Jean Elliot: The Flowers of the Forest
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh: Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib
Brne Karnarutić: Vazetje Sigeta grada
Miklós Zrínyi: Szigeti veszedelem
Pavao Ritter Vitezović: Odiljenje sigetsko
Andreas Gryphius
Sìleas na Ceapaich: Là Sliabh an t-Siorraim, Alistair à Gleanna Garadh
Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
John Roy Stewart
Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill: Mo Ghile Mear
Walter Scott
Carolina Nairne
Agnes Maxwell MacLeod
Allan Cunningham
William Hamilton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Paul Revere's Ride
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
David Humphreys
Iain mac MhurchaidhEdited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle (2020), North American Gaels: Speech, Song, and Story in the Diaspora, McGill-Queen's University Press. Page 14.
Cionneach MacCionnichEdited by Michael Newton (2015), Seanchaidh na Coille: Memory-Keeper of the Forest, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 52–59.
1800–1914
Haxhi Shehreti: Alipashiad
Lord Byron
Rigas Feraios Dionysios Solomos Georg Herwegh
Sándor Petőfi
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Walt Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
Herman Melville
Awenydd
Abram Ryan
Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"Carrington, C. E., (1955) The life of Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday & Co., p. 236
Thomas Hardy
Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"Slovoto, https://www.slovo.bg/old/f/en/botev/index.htm
First World War
John Allan WyethDana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth: Soldier Poet, St Austin Review, March/April 2020. p. 4.
Wilfred Owen
Robert Graves
Siegfried Sassoon
David Jones
Ivor Gurney
Rupert Brooke Edward Thomas
Isaac Rosenberg
Charles Peguy
Guillaume Apollinaire
Blaise Cendrars
Eugenio Montale
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Georg Trakl
August Stramm
Gottfried Benn
Géza Gyóni August Stramm
Walter Flex: Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht
Yvan Goll: Requiem. Für die Gefallenen von Europa
Stefan George Reinhard Sorge
Anton Schnack Guillaume Apollinaire
Adrien Bertrand
Yvan Goll
Charles Péguy
Blaise Cendrars Jean de La Ville de Mirmont Yann-Ber Kalloc'h
Alexander Blok
Ilya Ehrenburg
Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
Nikolay Gumilyov Anna Akhmatova
Leon Gellert John O'Donnell John McCrae: In Flanders Fields Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
William Butler Yeats: "On being asked for a War Poem"
Allan MacDonald
Tom Kettle
Charles Sorley
John Munro
Pàdraig Moireasdan Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna Hedd Wyn
Cynan
Alan Seeger
Joyce Kilmer: "Rouge Bouquet"
Moina Michael: We Shall Keep the Faith Interwar period
Roy Campbell Uys Krige Federico García Lorca José María Hinojosa Lasarte Antonio Machado Manuel Machado Second World War
Czesław Miłosz
Hirsh Glick
Anna Świrszczyńska
Miklós Radnóti
Anna Akhmatova Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Desanka Maksimović
Yrjö Jylhä
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
Alun Lewis
Keith Douglas
Sidney Keyes
Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
H. W. Gretton
Hamish Henderson
Duncan Livingstone
Sorley MacLean
Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
Aonghas Caimbeul
Calum MacNeacail
Dylan Thomas
Alun Lewis
Richard Wilbur
Anthony Hecht Dunstan Thompson
Karl Shapiro Randall Jarrell
Paul Celan: "Todesfuge" Tristan Tzara
Ryuichi Tamura Sadako Kurihara
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Korean War and later
Rolando Hinojosa William Wantling Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna Michael Casey W. D. Ehrhart Richard Wilbur Rob Jacques Yusef Komunyakaa Bruce WeiglUnaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, edited by W. D. Ehrhart. (Texas Tech University Press, 1989) Caitlín Maude Brian Turner Erika Renee Land References
External links
War Poets Association