Robert Nichols

Born in 1893, he was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, and became closely associated with the generation of writers shaped by the First World War. He served in the war, was badly affected by his experiences, and later became known for poetry that brought together intense sensory detail, emotional strain, and reflection on combat.

His early books include Invocation, Ardours and Endurances, and A Faun's Holiday and Poems and Fantasies. He also wrote plays and worked widely in literary and academic settings, spending periods in England, the United States, and continental Europe.

He died in 1944. Though he is less widely read now than some of his contemporaries, he remains an important voice among British war poets for the immediacy and psychological depth of his writing.