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.

• 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 

"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 McCrae, 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 McCrae'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.