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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.
Jessie Pope was born in 1868 in Leicester, England. She is best known for her poetry of World War I, published in Jessie Pope’s War Poems (G. Richards, 1915) and More War Poems (G. Richards, 1915). Pope died in 1941 in Devon, England.
Born in London in 1882, Mina Loy has been labelled as a Futurist, Dadaist, Surrealist, feminist, conceptualist, modernist, and post-modernist. Known for both her poetry and visual art, she died in Colorado in 1966.
Siegfried Sassoon, born in England in 1886, is best known for his poems inspired by his experiences in World War I. Also a novelist, Sassoon died on September 1, 1967.
May Wedderburn Cannan was born in Oxford, England, in 1893. She volunteered in World War I before publishing her first poetry collection, In War Time (Blackwell, 1917). Cannan died in 1973.
Florence Margaret "Stevie" Smith was born in 1902 in Yorkshire, England. Her