![]() After the war, Blunden was a professor in Tokyo and Hong Kong. The youngest of the war poets (he was 18 when the war started), Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) went to school at Christ's Church, and wrote artful pastoral poetry. Macdonald, (The little books of Georgian verse (second series) under the general editorship of S. (Thanks to Penny Neary, Concert Secretary at Westminster Abbey) ![]() The inscription on the stone is from Owen's now-famous " Preface" to his poems: My subject is War, and the pity of War. The only poet of the group still alive at the unveiling in 1985 of the stone in Westminster Abbey was Robert Graves, who died later that same year. Of the 16 poets, Brooke, Grenfell, Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley, and Thomas died in the war. At 45, Binyon was the oldest at the start of the war. On Novem(the 67th anniversary of the Armistice), a slate stone was unveiled in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey commemorating 16 Great War poets:Īll 16 poets whose names appear on the memorial served in uniform during the war. Straight and debonair and dauntless.” Major Owen Rutter (1889-1944) ![]() Poets of the Great War “Light of heart and much enduring, ![]()
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