List of war poets



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 Mhurchaidh


 * Cionneach MacCionnich

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"


 * Thomas Hardy


 * Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"

First World War

 * John Allan Wyeth


 * 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 Weigl
 * Caitlín Maude
 * Brian Turner
 * Erika Renee Land