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
1500–1800
1800–1914
- Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"
- Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"
First World War
See also: Category:World War I poets- Leon Gellert
- John O'Donnell
- John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
- Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
Interwar period
- Roy Campbell
- Uys Krige
- Federico García Lorca
- José María Hinojosa Lasarte
- Antonio Machado
- Manuel Machado
Second World War
See also: Category:World War II poetsKorean 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
References
- Edited by Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle (2020), North American Gaels: Speech, Song, and Story in the Diaspora, McGill-Queen's University Press. Page 14.
- Edited by Michael Newton (2015), Seanchaidh na Coille: Memory-Keeper of the Forest, Cape Breton University Press. Pages 52–59.
- Carrington, C. E., (1955) The life of Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday & Co., p. 236
- Slovoto, https://www.slovo.bg/old/f/en/botev/index.htm
- Dana Gioia, John Allan Wyeth: Soldier Poet, St Austin Review, March/April 2020. p. 4.
- "Moina Michael". Digital Library of Georgia. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- Proffer, Carl R. (7 August 1977). "Russia in Prussia". The New York Times.
- Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, edited by W. D. Ehrhart. (Texas Tech University Press, 1989)