Who one of the leading poets of the First World War, who was the first known user of the phrase  "the pity of war" ?
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The Pity of War The first known use of the phrase "the pity of war" was by Wilfred Owen in 1918, in the preface to his collected poems, which would be posthumously published. The phrase, has been used as a title of books and other media over a long period.
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Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Exposure" and "Strange Meeting".
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Émile Deschamps Émile de Saint-Amand Deschamps (] ; 20 February 179123 April 1871) was a French poet. He was born at Bourges. The son of a civil servant, he adopted his father’s career, but as early as 1812 he distinguished himself by an ode, "La Paix conquise", which won the praise of Napoleon. In 1818 he collaborated with Henri de Latouche in two verse comedies, "Selmours de Florian" and "Le Tour de faveur".
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F. W. Harvey Frederick William Harvey DCM (26 March 1888 – 13 February 1957), often known as Will Harvey, and dubbed "the Laureate of Gloucestershire", was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor whose poetry became popular during and after World War I.
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Mina Loy Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966), was a British artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, feminist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia and Yvor Winters, among others.
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They (poem) They is a 1917 poem by the English soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon published in "The Old Huntsman and Other Poems". It disparages the attitude of the established church to the Great War.
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Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for "The London Magazine", the "Athenaeum", and "Punch". He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of playwright and humourist Tom Hood (1835–1874).
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Will Longstaff Captain William Frederick Longstaff (1879–1953) was an Australian painter and war artist best known for his works commemorating those who died in the First World War.
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Derek Savage (poet) Derek Stanley Savage (6 March 1917 – 14 October 2007), was a pacifist poet and critic, and usually published as "D.S.Savage". He was General Secretary of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.
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R. S. Thomas Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 – 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, in his 1955 introduction to "Song at the Year's Turning", the first collection of Thomas's poetry to be produced by a major publisher, predicted that Thomas would be remembered long after he himself was forgotten. M. Wynn Thomas said: "He was the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of Wales because he was such a troubler of the Welsh conscience. He was one of the major English language and European poets of the 20th century."
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Teresa Hooley Teresa Hooley (1888–1973), known mostly for a war poem "A War Film" about World War I, was a pseudonym of Mrs. F. H. Butler. This much information is given in "Modern Poetry 1922-1934" by Maurice Wollman; who adds some further biographical information that is hard to check.
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Sorrows of Werther Sorrows of Werther is a satirical poem by William Makepeace Thackeray written in response to the enormous success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
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Felix Wedgwood Arthur Felix Wedgwood (18 July 1877 - 14 March 1917) was an English author, mountaineer and soldier who died on active service during the First World War.
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Robert Browning Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.
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Roses of Picardy "Roses of Picardy" is a British popular song with lyrics by Frederick Weatherly and music by Haydn Wood. Published in London in 1916 by Chappell & Co, it was one of the most famous songs of the First World War and has been recorded frequently up to the present day.
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Isn't It a Pity? "Isn't It a Pity?" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1933 musical "Pardon My English". It was introduced by George Givot and Josephine Huston.
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John Masefield John Edward Masefield, OM ( ; 1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) English poet and writer, was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930. Among his best known works are the children's novels "The Midnight Folk" and "The Box of Delights", and the poems "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".
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Grodek "Grodek" is a poem about World War I written by Georg Trakl, an Austrian Expressionist poet. It was one of his last poems, if not his very last poem.
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Your King and Country Need You (Pelham) "Your King and Country Need You" was a British popular song and recitation, with words by Paul Pelham, and music by W. H. Wallis and Fred Elton. It was published in London in 1914, at the start of the First World War, by Lawrence Wright Music. It was written as a recruiting song with the aim of persuading men to volunteer to fight in the War. Half the profits on the first 100,000 copies were to be given to the "H.R.H. Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund".
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( ; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", as well as the major prose work "Biographia Literaria". His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.
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Hymn Before Action "Hymn Before Action" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1896. It takes the form of a prayer by troops to God and to Mary on the eve of battle.
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The Book of the Homeless The Book of the Homeless was a 1916 collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I. It was edited by Edith Wharton.