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
Thomas Bancroft (poet) Thomas Bancroft (poet) Thomas Bancroft (c. 1596 – 1658) was a minor seventeenth-century English poet, He wrote a number of poems and epigrams addressed to notable people into which he embedded clever puns. Thomas Bancroft was a native of Swarkestone, a Derbyshire village on the River Trent: he has an epigram in celebration of his father and mother buried in Swarkestone Church. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1613, where he was a contemporary of James Shirley, to whom he addresses an epigram. He was an usher (a junior grammar school master who taught the rudiments of Latin