Editing Poets' Corner (section)

==First World War poets==
The memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, to 16 Great War poets is a slate stone slab with the names of the poets inscribed on it. It was unveiled on 11 November 1985, the 67th anniversary of the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|Armistice]]. An additional inscription quotes [[Wilfred Owen|Owen]]'s "Preface":<ref>[http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html Poets of the Great War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922074012/http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/poets/poets.html |date=22 September 2008 }}, Brigham Young University, accessed 14 March 2010</ref>

{{cquote|My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.}}
[[File:WW1 Poets floorstone, Westminster Abbey.jpg|thumb|Poets of the First World War memorial]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! class="unsortable"| Image
! Poet
! Born
! Died
! Age when<br>war started<ref>The date used here is 4 August 1914, the date Britain entered the war.</ref>
! class="unsortable"| Notes on<br>war service
! class="unsortable"| Notes on<br>poetry
|-
| ...
|| [[Richard Aldington]]
| 1892
| 1962
| 22
| Enlisted 1916<br>Commissioned 1917<br>Second Lieutenant<br>[[Royal Sussex Regiment]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Laurence Binyon by William Strang.jpg|100px]]
| [[Laurence Binyon]]
| 1869
| 1943
| 44
| Volunteered in 1915 and 1916<br>[[Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois]]<br>British hospital for French soldiers
| ...
|-
| [[File:Edmundblundencirca1914.jpg|100px]]
| [[Edmund Blunden]]
| 1896
| 1974
| 17
| Commissioned August 1915<br>Second Lieutenant<br>[[Royal Sussex Regiment]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Rupert Brooke Q 71073.jpg|100px]]
| [[Rupert Brooke]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1887
| 1915
| 27
| Commissioned August 1914<br>Temporary Sub-Lieutenant<br>[[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]]
| ...
|-
| ...
| [[Wilfrid Wilson Gibson|Wilfrid Gibson]]
| 1878
| 1962
| 35
| Rejected several times<br>Enlisted October 1917<br>[[Royal Army Service Corps|Army Service Corps]]<br>(Motor Transport)<br>Never saw active service
| ...
|-
| ...<!--Do not use the non-free file:File:Robert Graves.jpg-->
| [[Robert Graves]]
| 1895
| 1985
| 19
| Commissioned 1914<br>[[Royal Welch Fusiliers]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Julian Grenfell (For Remembrance) cropped.jpg|100px]]
| [[Julian Grenfell]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1888
| 1915
| 26
| Commissioned 1910<br>Captain (at time of death)<br>[[Royal Dragoons]]
| ...
|-
| ...
| [[Ivor Gurney]]
| 1890
| 1937
| 23
| Private<br>[[Gloucestershire Regiment]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:David jones.jpg|100px]]
| [[David Jones (poet)|David Jones]]
| 1895
| 1974
| 18
| Enlisted 1915<br>Private<br>[[Royal Welch Fusiliers]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Robert Nichols, by Elliott & Fry.jpg|100px]]
| [[Robert Nichols (poet)|Robert Nichols]]
| 1893
| 1944
| 20
| Commissioned 1914<br>[[Royal Artillery]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920).jpg|100px]]
| [[Wilfred Owen]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1893
| 1918
| 21
| Enlisted 1915<br>Commissioned June 1916<br>Second Lieutenant<br>[[Manchester Regiment]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Herbert Read (1966).jpg|100px]]
| [[Herbert Read]]
| 1893
| 1968
| 20
| Captain<br>[[Green Howards]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Isaac Rosenberg by Isaac Rosenberg.jpg|100px]]
| [[Isaac Rosenberg]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1890
| 1918
| 23
| Enlisted October 1915<br>12th Suffolk Folk Regiment<br>[[King's Own Royal Lancaster]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Siegfried Sassoon by George Charles Beresford (1915).jpg|100px]]
| [[Siegfried Sassoon]]
| 1886
| 1967
| 27
| Enlisted 1914<br>Commissioned May 1915<br>Captain (at end of war)<br>[[Royal Welch Fusiliers]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Charles Hamilton Sorley (For Remembrance) cropped and retouched.jpg|100px]]
| [[Charles Sorley]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1895
| 1915
| 19
| Enlisted 1914<br>Captain (at time of death)<br>[[Suffolk Regiment]]
| ...
|-
| [[File:Edward Thomas.jpg|100px]]
| [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]] <sup>†</sup>
| 1878
| 1917
| 36
| Enlisted July 1915<br>[[Artists Rifles]]<br>Commissioned November 1916<br>[[Royal Garrison Artillery]]
| ...
|}

The <sup>†</sup> symbol indicates poets who died during the war.