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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.
Often associated with the Imagist movement, Ford Madox Ford was the author of numerous poetry collections, including New Poems (William Edwin Rudge, 1927). He fought in World War I from 1915 to 1917 and died in 1939.
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.
Dana Burnet was born in Ohio in 1888. He was the author of Poems (Harper & Brothers, 1915), as well as several works of prose. Burnet died in 1962.
English poet Rupert Chawner Brooke was born on August 3, 1887.
Arthur Davidson Ficke was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1883. He published several poetry collections, including Tumultous Shore and Other Poems (Knopf, 1942), and served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Ficke died in 1945.