The slate stone slab at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, commemorates sixteen of the Great War Poets … unveiled on 11 November 1985, the 67th anniversary of the Armistice.
There's an inscription which quotes from Wilfred Owen's “Preface” to his poems:
My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.
Poets of the First World War
Memorial in Westminster Abbey
Isaac Rosenberg who died on 1st April 1918 at Fampoux, near Calais, is one of the sixteen poets recorded on the slate.
Rosenberg's self-portrait … he became interested in both poetry and visual art … he has an interesting history – sad, he like so many others, died so young.
Thinking of what these incredible men and women endured for us … their courage … and suffering.
Rosenberg's self-portrait
If … if only … if only … we could respect each other in this world … we are all human … we would live happily together and benefit with this life of ours …
Let's spread peace without destruction of our lives, our culture, our societies …
I list the poets inscribed on the Memorial:
Richard Aldington; Laurence Binyon; Edmund Blunden; Rupert Brooke; Wilfrid Gibson; Robert Graves; Julian Grenfell; Ivor Gurney; David Jones; Robert Nichols; Wilfred Owen; Herbert Read; Isaac Rosenberg; Siegfried Sassoon; Charles Sorley; Edward Thomas.
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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