Most of the war poetry and literature that we know today originated during the First World War. Likewise, even pieces that do not directly reference the war owe a great deal of their stylistic influences to the experiences the authors had suffered during their time on the front lines.
These authors were present on the front, from the still genre-defining J.R.R. Tolkien to the fantastical C.S. Lewis and even the Nobel Prize-winning Ernest Hemingway. They could not help but find themselves profoundly changed by the trials and tribulations they faced while being inspired by the many facets of humanity seen around them.
