Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg (born Nov. 25, 1890, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died April 1918, France) was a British poet and painter who was killed in World War I.

Rosenberg first trained to be a painter, winning several prizes at the Slade School of Art, London. He enlisted in the British Army in 1915 and is best known for his “trench poems,” written between 1916 and 1918, which showed great imaginative power and originality in imagery. His Collected Works, with a foreword by Siegfried Sassoon, first appeared in 1937; an edition by Ian Parsons including poetry, prose, letters, paintings and drawings, was published in 1979.