Charles Sorley
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Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915.
Charles Hamilton Sorley cropped and retouched
Isaac Rosenberg
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Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet and artist. His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War.
Charles Sorley
…of Sorley's, described him in his book Goodbye to All That as "one of the three poets of importance killed during the war". (The other two were Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen.) Sorley may be seen as a forerunner of Sassoon and Owen, and his unsentimental style stands in direct contrast to that of Rupert…
Self-portrait of Isaac Rosenberg, 1915.
Private Rosenberg, personal service number 22311
Poets of the First World War memorial, Westminster Abbey