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May Wedderburn Cannan was born in Oxford, England, on October 14, 1893. She attended school in Kent before joining the Oxford’s branch of the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment in 1911. After World War I began, she volunteered at the railway canteen in Rouen, France. Cannan published her first collection of poetry, In War Time (Blackwell), in 1917. She went on to publish The House of Hope (Humphrey Milford, 1923) and The Splendid Days (Blackwell, 1919), as well as a novel, The Lonely Generation (Hutchinson, 1934). An autobiography, Grey Ghosts and Voices (Roundwood Press, 1976), was published posthumously. Canaan returned to England for financial reasons before the war was over. She worked at the Oxford University Press and for the War Office in Paris before serving as an assistant editor of Oxford Magazine. In 1924 she married Percival J. Slater, and they kept a small farm in Staffordshire. She died in 1973.
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...
Eugenio Montale was bornin Genoa, Italy, in 1896. He served as an infantry officer in World War I...
Edward Estlin Cummings is known for his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling,...