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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.
Philip Edward Thomas was born in London in 1878. A close friend of the poet Robert Frost, he wrote much of his poetry while serving as a soldier during World War I. He was killed in France on April 9, 1917.
Eugenio Montale was bornin Genoa, Italy, in 1896. He served as an infantry officer in World War I and published his first book of poetry in 1925. Montale, who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, died in 1981.
Florence Earle Coates was born in 1850 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the author of several books of poetry, including Pro Patria (Philadelphia, 1917), a collection about World War I.
Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania in 1874. An important figure among American expatriates in Paris, she was known for her experimental literature, including Tender Buttons (Claire Marie, 1914). She died in France in 1946.
Born near Paris, France, in 1870, Hilaire Belloc was the author of two books of verse and several works of fiction and non-fiction