John McCrae, a doctor and poet who served in Europe during the First World War, composed "In Flanders Fields", one of the most enduring literary expressions of the horrors of war. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems is being reissued.

• 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 McCrae: An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail


• Notes 

John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe during the First World War. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems, including "In Flanders Fields," perhaps the most famous Canadian poem ever written. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.