English World War I poets
A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about their experiences, or a non-combatant who writes poems about war. While the term is applied especially to those who served during the First World War, the term can be applied to a poet of any nationality writing about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Crimean War and other wars.
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Robert Graves
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of the author of I, Claudius, especially his love and war poems and his ideas on the source of all creativity.
10 October 2024
Featuring: Paul O'Prey, Fran Brearton, Bob Davis
Culture20th-century English novelistsEnglish atheists20th-century atheists20th-century English male writersEnglish people of Irish descentPrix Italia winnersEnglish writers with disabilitiesEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century English poetsEnglish male short story writers20th-century English non-fiction writersPeople educated at Charterhouse SchoolJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsEnglish historical novelistsPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderBisexual male writers20th-century English LGBTQ peopleEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersBritish Army personnel of World War IBisexual memoiristsEnglish male novelists20th-century English memoiristsEnglish male poets20th-century translatorsEnglish World War I poetsBisexual novelistsBisexual poetsEnglish short story writersEnglish literary criticsOxford Professors of PoetryEnglish male non-fiction writersSiegfried Sassoon
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon; a homosexual war hero who became a bitter opponent of the First World War and a devout Catholic.
7 June 2007
Featuring: Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Fran Brearton, Max Egremont
20th-century English novelistsEnglish Roman Catholics20th-century English male writersRoman Catholic writersLGBTQ Roman CatholicsEnglish Catholic poetsEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century English poetsWar writersJames Tait Black Memorial Prize recipientsDeaths from stomach cancer in EnglandPeople with post-traumatic stress disorderBisexual male writersPeople educated at Marlborough CollegeRecipients of the Military Cross20th-century English LGBTQ peopleEnglish bisexual men, English bisexual writers, Royal Welch Fusiliers officersBritish Army personnel of World War I20th-century English memoiristsEnglish World War I poetsBisexual poetsBisexual military personnelWilfred Owen
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Britain's greatest war poets, who published only 5 poems in his short life yet whose works became seen as a warning of the futility of wars.
27 October 2022
Featuring: Jane Potter, Fran Brearton, Guy Cuthbertson
CultureWar writersBritish Army personnel of World War IEnglish people of Welsh descentArtists' Rifles soldiersPeople with post-traumatic stress disorder20th-century English male writersEnglish male poetsRecipients of the Military Cross20th-century English LGBTQ peopleEnglish World War I poetsLost Generation writersEnglish writers with disabilitiesEnglish LGBTQ poets20th-century English poets