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
James Orr (poet) James Orr (poet) James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816), known as the "Bard of Ballycarry", was a poet or "rhyming weaver" from Ballycarry, Co. Antrim in the province of Ulster in Ireland, who wrote in English and Ulster Scots. He was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns. According to that other great Ulster poet, John Hewitt, he produced some material that was better than Burns. Orr joined the Irish nationalist Society of United Irishmen in 1791 and took part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The United Army of Ulster, of