Veterans Day — originally Armistice Day — was renamed in 1954 to include veterans who had fought in all wars. But the day of remembrance has... WWI Poetry: On Veterans Day, The Words Of War Veterans ...

Compiled by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. First and Second Series: 1917 and 1919. Two vols., 12mo, xxx + 280, and xxxvii + 387 pp. Each vol., $1.50 cloth, $2.25 ...

Veterans Day is next Thursday, November 11. The new "Folio Book Of War Poetry" is a collection of works by great poets that depict - as maybe only poetry can - the losses and valor that can be borne ...

It was a hot June night in 1943, and Frances Angermayer could not sleep. So, she arose after midnight, went to her typewriter, and — in 20 minutes — wrote what was to become the most famous poem of ...

Many millions died in the First World War and the state of global geopolitics was effectively changed forever, but the conflict was also the inspiration for some of the most moving poetry ever written ...

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of ...

One of the reasons we’re able to understand, with such vivid knowledge, what life was like during WW1 is thanks to some great poetry. But what many who grew up reading Britain's First World War poets ...