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Dana Burnet was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 3, 1888. He graduated from Cornell University in 1911. He worked as a news reporter at The New York Evening Sun, where he also published many poems. He was the author of Poems (Harper & Brothers, 1915), which includes several poems about World War I, as well as several works of prose. Burnet died in 1962.
Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax; he abandoned traditional techniques and structures to create a new, highly idiosyncratic means of poetic expression.
Born in 1890 in England, Isaac Rosenberg served in the military during World War I and became known as one of England's finest trench poets. He died in France in 1918, and his poems were posthumously collected and published in 1922.
Amos Wilder was born in 1895 in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1923 he published Battle Retrospect (Yale University Press), about his experiences in World War I, as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Also a professor of divinity, he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1993.
Robert William Service was born in 1874 in Lancashire, England. He moved to Canada as a young man, where he became famous for poems such as "The Cremation of Sam McGee." Known as the poet of the Yukon, he died in 1958.
T. E. Hulme, one of the founders of the imagist movement, was born on September 16, 1883, in Endon, England. He was killed in action during World War I on September 28, 1917.
Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire, England, in 1892. An early member of the Imagist movement, he was the author of War and Love (1915-1919) (The Four Seas Company, 1919), Images (The Egoist, 1919), and numerous other books of poetry and prose.