He was also a war poet and subsequently a novelist.
There's something incongruous in the fact that this melodramatic war poet never saw any action or even left the United States.
There was also a notable group of war poets who wrote about their own experiences of war, which caught the public attention.
Poems and letters written by the war poet describe his experiences on the Western Front.
Perhaps we could even justify calling him a war poet.
Litvinoff became known as a war poet during his time in the army.
At school, many came to the war through English lessons, where a small group of war poets were taught in an historical vacuum.
Many poems by British war poets were published in newspapers and then collected into anthologies.
He was a published war poet, and collected his early verse in Behind the Eyes (1921).
He was not a mainstream war poet, but did occasionally write about the subject.