Poetry · 1919
In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems
The poem written in a few minutes beside a fresh grave at Ypres, its second stanza spoken in the voice of the dead — collected here with the rest of its author's verse, from early student pieces to the poems of the war that killed him, alongside a biographical memoir by the friend who prepared this edition after his death.
John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields" in May 1915; In Flanders Fields and Other Poems was first published in 1919, a year after his death, with a memoir by Sir Andrew Macphail.
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Contents
- Introductory
- 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
- I — In Flanders Fields
- II — With the Guns
- III — The Brand of War
- IV — Going to the Wars
- V — South Africa
- VI — Children and Animals
- VII — The Old Land and the New
- VIII — The Civil Years
- IX — Dead in His Prime
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About the author
1872–1918 · Victorian
John McCrae (1872–1918) was a Canadian physician, soldier and poet, born in Guelph, Ontario. He served as a gunner in the Second Boer War before returning to a career in medicine, then rejoined the army at the outbreak of the First World War. In May 1915, after presiding over the burial of a friend and former student killed at the Second Battle of Ypres, he wrote "In Flanders Fields," the poem that made him one of the war's best-known voices. He died of pneumonia and meningitis in January 1918 while commanding a Canadian field hospital in France.
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