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
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