On 11 November 1985, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Armistice Day which concluded the First World War, a memorial stone was unveiled in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey. The stone commemorated sixteen British poets who had all served during the war.
The idea for the memorial stone came from Edward Carpenter, the Dean of Westminster Abbey, who initially thought that between five and seven poets could be chosen to represent all the British poets of the Great War. However, after consulting eminent historians and authors, a final list of sixteen was drawn up.
This 18,800 word book provides a biography of each of the sixteen poets, to allow readers to place the poets’ work in the context of their lives, and especially of their wartime experiences.
The poets included are:
Richard Aldington
Laurence Binyon
Edmund Blunden
Rupert Brooke
Wilfrid Gibson
Robert Graves
Julian Grenfell
Ivor Gurney
David Jones
Robert Nichols
Wilfred Owen
Herbert Read
Isaac Rosenberg
Siegfried Sassoon
Charles Sorley
Edward Thomas
The idea for the memorial stone came from Edward Carpenter, the Dean of Westminster Abbey, who initially thought that between five and seven poets could be chosen to represent all the British poets of the Great War. However, after consulting eminent historians and authors, a final list of sixteen was drawn up.
This 18,800 word book provides a biography of each of the sixteen poets, to allow readers to place the poets’ work in the context of their lives, and especially of their wartime experiences.
The poets included are:
Richard Aldington
Laurence Binyon
Edmund Blunden
Rupert Brooke
Wilfrid Gibson
Robert Graves
Julian Grenfell
Ivor Gurney
David Jones
Robert Nichols
Wilfred Owen
Herbert Read
Isaac Rosenberg
Siegfried Sassoon
Charles Sorley
Edward Thomas
