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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.
Gertrude Stein was born in Pennsylvania in 1874. An important figure among American expatriates...
Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1895. He served in the British Army...
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky) was born in Rome on
Edmund Blunden was born in London, England, in 1896. Called "the poet of the war most lastingly...
Robert William Service was born in 1874 in Lancashire, England. He moved to Canada as a young...
Jessie Pope was born in 1868 in Leicester, England. She is best known for her poetry of World War...