Who are the most important poets of World War I?

A number
of influential English poets sprang from the years of the Great War. Unfortunately, many of
their voices had been silenced by death before the war's end. Notable British poets who offered
their perspectives on the war and/or influenced later poets include Rupert Brooke, Siegfried
Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and T. E. Hulme.

Of these, Rupert Brooke was the one
whose poetry reflected the nationalism and patriotism that characterized the young British men
at the beginning of the war. Winston Churchill honored him by saying,