The Soldier (poem) The Soldier (poem) "The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled "1914". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem "Dulce et Decorum est". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after "The Soldier" was published. "The Soldier", being the conclusion and the finale to Brooke’s "1914" war sonnet series, deals
The Wallace (poem) chivalrous. The English are depicted throughout as the natural and irreconcilable enemies of the Scots. In the early texts of the poem, the author of "The Wallace" is referred to as "Hary" or "Blind Hary" but little is known for certain about the poet. A man referred to as 'Blind Hary' is recorded as having received payments from King James IV on five occasions between 1490 and 1492. The reasons for the payments are not specified. A 'Blind Hary' is also mentioned by the near-contemporary poet William Dunbar in his Lament for the Makaris. In this poem Hary is included