John McCrae 
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems 

“In Flanders Fields, ” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John Mc Crae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915.



This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of Mc Crae’s writings, originally issued by his friends in 1919 in his honour and memory. It includes the best of his poetry and selections of his letters from the front lines together with a thoughtful essay of appreciation by his friend and fellow medical officer, Sir Andrew Macphail.

Tabella dei contenuti

• Introduction 


• Related Reading 


• A Note on the Text


• In Flanders Fields and Other Poems


• Note of Acknowledgement 


• In Flanders Fields 

• The Anxious Dead

• The Warrior 

• Isandlwana 

• The Unconquered Dead 

• The Captain 

• The Song of the Derelict 

• Quebec 

• Then and Now 

• Unsolved 

• The Hope of My Heart 

• Penance 

• Slumber Songs 

• The Oldest Drama 

• Recompense 

• Mine Host 

• Equality 

• Anarchy 

• Disarmament 

• The Dead Master 

• The Harvest of the Sea 

• The Dying of Pere Pierre 

• Eventide 

• Upon Watts’ Picture ‘Sic Transit’ 

• A Song of Comfort 

• The Pilgrims 

• The Shadow of the Cross 

• The Night Cometh 

• In Due Season 

• John Mc Crae: An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail


• Notes 

Circa l’autore

Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for Mc Graw-Hill Ryerson. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa.