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Laurence Binyon was born in Lancaster, England, in 1869. Best known for his poem "For the Fallen," written at the onset of World War I, Binyon also wrote and translated verse drama and worked as an art historian. He died in 1943.
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.
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky) was born in Rome on August 26, 1880.
Winifred M. Letts was a novelist, playwright, and poet who famously wrote about her experiences during World War I. Her collections include More Songs from Leinster (John Murray, 1926), and The Spires of Oxford and Other Poems (E. P. Dutton and Company, 1918). She died in 1972.
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.