# List of war poets

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
* Homer: The Iliad
* Quintus of Smyrna: Posthomerica
* Ferdowsi: Shahnameh
* Aneirin: Y Gododdin
* John Barbour: The Brus
* Blind Harry: The Wallace

## 1500–1800

* Jean Elliot: The Flowers of the Forest
* Mícheál Ó Cléirigh: Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib
* Brne Karnarutić: Vazetje Sigeta grada
* Miklós Zrínyi: Szigeti veszedelem
* Pavao Ritter Vitezović: Odiljenje sigetsko
* Andreas Gryphius
* Sìleas na Ceapaich: Là Sliabh an t-Siorraim, Alistair à Gleanna Garadh
* Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
* John Roy Stewart
* Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill: Mo Ghile Mear
* Walter Scott
* Carolina Nairne
* Agnes Maxwell MacLeod
* Allan Cunningham
* William Hamilton
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Paul Revere's Ride
* Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn
* David Humphreys
* Iain mac Mhurchaidh
* Cionneach MacCionnich

## 1800–1914

* Haxhi Shehreti: Alipashiad
* Lord Byron
* Rigas Feraios
* Dionysios Solomos
* Georg Herwegh
* Sándor Petőfi
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
* Walt Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!"
* Herman Melville
* Awenydd
* Abram Ryan
* Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"
* Thomas Hardy
* Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"

## First World War

* John Allan Wyeth
* Wilfred Owen
* Robert Graves
* Siegfried Sassoon
* David Jones
* Ivor Gurney
* Rupert Brooke
* Edward Thomas
* Isaac Rosenberg
* Charles Peguy
* Guillaume Apollinaire
* Blaise Cendrars
* Eugenio Montale
* Giuseppe Ungaretti
* Gabriele D'Annunzio
* Georg Trakl
* August Stramm
* Gottfried Benn
* Géza Gyóni
* August Stramm
* Walter Flex: Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht
* Yvan Goll: Requiem. Für die Gefallenen von Europa
* Stefan George
* Reinhard Sorge
* Anton Schnack
* Guillaume Apollinaire
* Adrien Bertrand
* Yvan Goll
* Charles Péguy
* Blaise Cendrars
* Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
* Yann-Ber Kalloc'h
* Alexander Blok
* Ilya Ehrenburg
* Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
* Nikolay Gumilyov
* Anna Akhmatova
* Leon Gellert
* John O'Donnell
* John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
* Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man
* William Butler Yeats: "On being asked for a War Poem"
* Allan MacDonald
* Tom Kettle
* Charles Sorley
* John Munro
* Pàdraig Moireasdan
* Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
* Hedd Wyn
* Cynan
* Alan Seeger
* Joyce Kilmer: "Rouge Bouquet"
* Moina Michael: We Shall Keep the Faith

## Interwar period

* Roy Campbell
* Uys Krige
* Federico García Lorca
* José María Hinojosa Lasarte
* Antonio Machado
* Manuel Machado

## Second World War

* Czesław Miłosz
* Hirsh Glick
* Anna Świrszczyńska
* Miklós Radnóti
* Anna Akhmatova
* Alexander Solzhenitsyn
* Desanka Maksimović
* Yrjö Jylhä
* John Gillespie Magee Jr.
* Alun Lewis
* Keith Douglas
* Sidney Keyes
* Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
* H. W. Gretton
* Hamish Henderson
* Duncan Livingstone
* Sorley MacLean
* Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
* Aonghas Caimbeul
* Calum MacNeacail
* Dylan Thomas
* Alun Lewis
* Richard Wilbur
* Anthony Hecht
* Dunstan Thompson
* Karl Shapiro
* Randall Jarrell
* Paul Celan: "Todesfuge"
* Tristan Tzara
* Ryuichi Tamura
* Sadako Kurihara
* Tadamichi Kuribayashi

## Korean 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