| 单词 | war poet |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar poet war poet n. a poet writing on the subject of war, (now) esp. one in military service during the First World War (1914–18). ΚΠ 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 370/1 War, as he [sc. Scott] describes it, is a noble game, a kingly pastime. He is the greatest of all War-Poets. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. vi. 177 The true war poets..have been warriors themselves. Körner and Alcæus fought as well as sang. 1921 N.Y. Times 15 May 45/1 The war made him [sc. Wilfred Owen] a poet..and it is, perhaps, a not unreasonable prediction that, as the years drift by, he will eventually be known as the war poet. 1962 Listener 8 Feb. 259/3 By ‘war poet’ we now automatically assume anti-war poet. This was no tacit assumption in 1916. 2008 J. C. Horn in A. R. Wilson & M. L. Perry War, Virtual War & Society 36 The elegies of Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Blunden and the other war poets were not even widely read until the 1930s. < as lemmas |
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