Author:John McCrae

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John McCrae (1872–1918)

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae was a medical doctor and Canadian author. He fought in World War I. He was a poet, author, physician, and soldier. He was a surgeon during the Battle of Ypres, where he witnessed horrific results of the conflict.

John McCrae

Works

Poems

• In Flanders Fields (1915)
• A Song Of Comfort
• Anarchy
• Disarmament
• Equality
• Eventide
• In Due Season
• Isandlwana
• Mine Host
• Penance
• Quebec
• Recompense
• Slumber Songs
• The Anxious Dead
• The Captain
• The Dead Master
• The Dying Of Pere Pierre
• The Harvest Of The Sea
• The Hope Of My Heart
• The Night Cometh
• The Oldest Drama
• The Pilgrims
• The Shadow Of The Cross
• The Song Of The Derelict
• The Unconquered Dead
• The Warrior
• Then And Now
• Unsolved
• Upon Watts' Picture Sic Transit

Collections

• In Flanders Fields and Other Poems 1919
• In Flanders Fields, 1921. Illustrated editon.

Letters

• Published with Macphail's, "John McCrae, an essay in character", In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, 1919.
  • "series of letters to his mother", p. 59—p. 79
  • "to his nieces and nephews" , p. 108—p. 112

Anthologized

• From A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "In Flanders Fields" p. 371; "The Anxious Dead" p. 371.

Works about McCrae

• In Memoriam: John McCrae
• John McCrae, 1919. Andrew Macphail, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
• Chapter IX: Robert Service, John McCrae, Edgar Middleton, as it appeared in the 1918 Our Poets of Today by Author:Howard Willard Cook

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1918, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Some or all works by this author are now in the public domain because it originates from Canada and its term of copyright has expired. According to Canadian copyright law, all private copyrights expire fifty years after the year marking the death of the author. Government works are held under Crown copyright and expire fifty years after publication