Canadian poems of the world war are as nobly conceived, as spiritually subduing or exalting, and as technically finished as _In Flanders Fields_. During the world war, as in previous wars, the women poets of Canada were to the fore in writing inspirational and commemorative martial verse. In Garvin’s _Canadian Poems of the Great War_ about one third (26) of the total number (73) of poets represented are women, and their war verse, especially the verse of Katherine Hale (whose poetry has been already dealt with), Helena Coleman, Frances Harrison, Isabel Graham, Agnes Maule Machar, Gertrude Bartlett, Grace Blackburn, Jean Blewett, Minnie Hallowell Bowen, Louise Morey Bowman, Isabelle Ecclestone Mackay, Lilian Leveridge, Lucy Montgomery, Beatrice Redpath, Sheila Rand, Florence Randal Livesay, Richard Scrace (Mrs. J. B. Williamson), Virna Sheard, Eloise Street, Ruth Strong, is not a whit below the level of the war verse by Canadian men and in some instances surpasses the latter’s. Dr. O’Hagan’s _Songs of Heroic Days_ (1916) is a popular volume, in which, for the most part, the poet recrudesces, in good newspaper verse, the traditional war spirit of bloodshed, retaliation and revenge. The poems, however, are made engaging by a ready humor and an Irish _jeu d’esprit_ in the thought of ‘squaring things’ with an enemy guilty of ‘dhirty thricks’ in war. Several other volumes of war verse appeared during and shortly after the close of the war—_The Fighting Men of Canada_ by Douglas Durkin; _Over the Hills of Home and Other Poems_ by Lilian Leveridge; _Sea Dogs and Men at Arms_ by Jesse Edgar Middleton; _A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems_ (posthumous) by Lieutenant Bernard Freeman Trotter; _Laurentian Lyrics and Other Poems_ (1915) by Lieutenant Arthur S. Bourinot; _Insulters of Death_ and _The New Apocalyse_ by Sergeant J. D. Logan, and several other volumes by returned men. The only comprehensive anthology of verse of the Great War, written by Canadians, is J. W. Garvin’s _Canadian Poems of the Great War_ (1918). This volume furnishes adequate proof that, as foreign critics have said, ‘the war poetry written by Canadian civilians and Canadian poets on active service is as excellent as that written by the poets of the older Allied Nations.’