Nobel prize In Literature
1. Rudyard Kipling - 1907
2. William Butler Yeats - 1923
3. George Bernard Shaw - 1925
4. Sinclair Lewis - 1930
5. John Galsworthy - 1932
6. Eugene O'Neill - 1936
7. Pearl S. Buck - 1938
8. T.S. Eliot - 1948
9. William Faulkner - 1949
10. Bertrand Russell - 1950
11. Sir Winston Churchill - 1953
12. Ernest Hemingway - 1954
13. John Steinbeck - 1962
14. Samuel Beckett - 1969
15. Patrick White - 1973
16. Saul Bellow - 1976
17. William Golding - 1983
18. Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka -1986
19. Joseph Brodsky - 1987
20. Nadine Gordimer - 1991
21. Derek Walcott - 1992
22. Toni Morrison - 1993
23. Seamus Heaney - 1995
24. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - 2001
25. John Maxwell Coetzee - 2003
26. Harold Pinter - 2005
27. Doris Lessing - 2007
28. Alice Munro - 2013
The War Poets or the Trench poets are known as Anti-War poets because the soldier cum poets not show the brevity of war but the futility of war . War poetry is nothing but the shadow of brutal life among the soldiers during the First World War. The War Poets wrote their poetry to raise the question either life or death; National Pride or own existence; duty or guilt; courage or cowardness. Rupard Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg are the most prominent Anti-War Poets. They are all involved directly into the War and eye witness to see the brutality in the name of National Pride at the battlefield. Wilfred Owen: (1893-1918 ) He was one of the most prominent Anti-War Poets during the First World War as well as a soldier. He wrote many poems about war but only five poems were published in his lifetime but most important poems are published posthumously. Futility , Strange Meeting, Insensibility , Dulce et Decorum est are
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