Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
Author: first_name: Francis
last_name: Ledwidge
Language: English
Year: 1919

Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World War I. His first volume of poems was published while he served, in 1915; two more were published posthumously, and were followed by this collection of complete works in 1919. He and five comrades had been killed by an exploding shell during the third battle of Ypres (July 1917).

His poems reflect his love for his native rural countryside, tinged with loss arising fr