38+ Walt Whitman Eulogy Poems

A war poet is a poet who participates in a war and writes about their experiences or a non-combatant who writes poems about war. While the term is applied especially to those who served during the First World War the term can be applied to a poet of any nationality writing about any war including Homers Iliad from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War the. Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25 1803 April 27 1882 who went by his middle name Waldo was an American essayist lecturer philosopher and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.