Robert Nichols (poet) War poet, Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." "Noon" "Thanksgiving" In 1919 the English composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote a "Music to “The Rider by Night”" (not extant in full). Robert Nichols (poet) Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols (6 or 16 September 1893 – 17 December 1944) was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, and a playwright. The son of the poet John Bowyer Buchanan Nichols, Robert Nichols was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the Royal
Harvey Shapiro (poet) Harvey Shapiro (poet) Harvey Shapiro (January 27, 1924 – January 7, 2013) was an American poet and editor of "The New York Times". He wrote a dozen books of poetry from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life. As an editor, he was always affiliated with "The New York Times" in some capacity, mainly in the magazine and book reviews, from 1957 to 2005. Harvey Irwin Shapiro was born in Chicago on January 27, 1924 into a Jewish family from Kiev. He spoke Yiddish. When he was a boy, his family moved to Manhattan