Poems of Emily Dickinson

The war poems of a soldier killed a week before the armistice, including Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. Owen said his subject was war, and the pity of war.

Wilfred Owen

Sixty three poems about young men who die young, written in deceptively simple verse. The melancholy is constant and the language never gets in its way.

A. E. Housman

The quietest of the three sisters wrote verse about faith, isolation and endurance under conditions she did not choose. Published under a pen name and overshadowed ever since.

Anne Bronte

Poems of grief, masking and dignity from one of the first Black writers to reach a wide readership. We Wear the Mask remains the definitive poem about performing contentment.

Paul Laurence Dunbar