"Harry" (1962) is a poem by Australian poet Francis Webb. It was originally published in the journal Meanjin Quarterly vol. 21 no.
The action at Lanark was an attack at Lanark, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence in May 1297. The Scotsman William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not...
Aniara (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum, lit. 'Aniara: a revue of man in time and space') is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of...
"Lepanto" is a poem by G. K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto (1571) written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines. The...
The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace (Modern English: The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace), also known as The Wallace, is a long "romantic biographical" poem by...
Harry Potter is an upcoming fantasy television series developed for HBO, based on the series of eponymous fantasy books by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the second screen adaptation of the books, following the Warner Bros. Pictures film series.
The General is a war poem by the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon that takes place in the First World War, in the Battle of Arras. Written in April 1917 from Sassoon's hospital bed in London while recovering from a shoulder wound received while...
Selected Poems is a collection of poems by Australian poet J. S. Harry, published by Penguin Books in 1996. The collection contains 139 poems from the poet's first three collections, with some new poems and some previously uncollected poems. It...
Henry John Patch (17 June 1898 – 25 July 2009), dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the world's last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War....
