Pearce, weaves, "a verse tapestry," about the military and spiritual journeys of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. The 2019 biographical film Tolkien focuses on the early life of fantasy novelist and poet J.R.R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult), his service in the British Army during World War I, and his close friendship with fellow war poet Geoffrey Bache Smith (Anthony Boyle). Shortly after Tolkien learns of Smith's death at the Battle of the Somme, the real Geoffrey Smith's last letter to Tolkien is read aloud in voiceover. The film then shows how Tolkien edited his fallen friend's poetry for publication and wrote the foreword himself. The 2021 biographical film Benediction, directed by Terence Davies, stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as English war poet Siegfried Sassoon at different periods of his life. In the same film, Wilfred Owen is played by Matthew Tennyson. In television In the 1984 Peanuts television special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?, Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae's In Flanders' Fields is read aloud at a World War I cemetery in France by Linus van Pelt (Jeremy Schoenberg). The 1989 BBC sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth, which is set in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I, repeatedly lampoons the absurdity of, "the mud, the death, the endless poetry", and particularly takes swipes at the romantic idealism found in the war poems of Rupert Brooke. See also Epic poetry War novel References Bibliography Ghosal, Sukriti. War Poetry – The New Sensibilities. Kindle Edition, 2015. ASIN: B00XH4O74Q. O'Prey, Paul (ed). First World War: Poems from the Front (Imperial War Museum, 2014) Roy, Pinaki. The Scarlet Critique: A Critical Anthology of War Poetry. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2010. . Ruzich, Constance. International Poetry of the First World War; An anthology of lost voices. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. . Silkin, Jon. Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1972. Rpt. 1998. . External links BBudgen, David: Literature (Version 1.1), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Poetry of the Boer War, St Andrew's University Japanese War poets Potter, Jane: Literature (Great Britain and Ireland), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Whalan, Mark: Literature (USA), in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. A selection of Boer War poems War Poems From Iraq War Poets Association The First World War Poetry Digital Archive Pro Patria (1917) by Philadelphia