Category
page 1World War II poets
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Anna Akhmatova
Russian poet (1889–1966)
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)

Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Japanese general (1891-1945)

Miklós Radnóti
Hungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)

Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Anna Świrszczyńska
Polish poet (1909–1984)
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)
Randall Jarrell
poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914–1965)
Sorley MacLean
Scottish poet (1911–1996)
Anthony Hecht
American poet (1923–2004)
Uys Krige
Afrikaner poet and translator (1910–1987)
Hirsh Glick
jewish poet and resistance member (1922–1944)
Karl Shapiro
American poet and essayist (1913-2000)

Jure Kaštelan
Croatian poet and writer (1919–1990)

Alun Lewis
Welsh poet (1915–1944)
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
aviator and poet (1922-1941)

Sidney Keyes
British poet (1922–1943)
Keith Douglas
British writer (1920–1944)
Mirza Gelovani
Georgian poet (1917-1944)
Charles Causley
Cornish poet and educator (1917–2003)
Roy Fuller
British writer (1912–1991)

Vernon Scannell
British boxer and poet (1922–2007)
Leonid Vysheslavsky
Ukrainian poet (1914-2002)
Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
Scottish poet (1887–1967)
Hamish Henderson
Scottish writer (1919–2002)