In Flanders Fields and Other Poems

by John McCrae

Overview

John Alexander McCrae (1872 - 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I. He is best known for writing the famous war poem In Flanders Fields. In Flanders Fields has been labeled the most popular poem written during World War 1. McCrae wrote this poem in 1915 the day after his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer died. The poppies referred to in the poem grew in abundance in Flanders Field where many war casualties had been buried. Now the poppy is a symbol of remembrance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438500935
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	08/28/2008
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe During the First World War. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.

Read an Excerpt

Dead. Short days ago

felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Table of Contents

• Introduction 
• Related Reading 
• A Note on the Text
• In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
• Note of Acknowledgement 
• In Flanders Fields 

• The Anxious Dead

• The Warrior 

• Isandlwana 

• The Unconquered Dead 

• The Captain 

• The Song of the Derelict 

• Quebec 

• Then and Now 

• Unsolved 

• The Hope of My Heart 

• Penance 

• Slumber Songs 

• The Oldest Drama 

• Recompense 

• Mine Host 

• Equality 

• Anarchy 

• Disarmament 

• The Dead Master 

• The Harvest of the Sea 

• The Dying of Pere Pierre 

• Eventide 

• Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit" 

• A Song of Comfort 

• The Pilgrims 

• The Shadow of the Cross 

• The Night Cometh 

• In Due Season 

• John McCrae: An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail
• Notes