Patrick Shaw-Stewart

Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was a British scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his "Achilles in the Trench", one of the best-known war poems of the First World War. Quotes I saw a man this morning  Who did not wish to die;I ask and cannot answer  If otherwise wish I. "Achilles in the Trench", st. 1. Handwritten on a blank page of his copy of A Shropshire Lad in 1916. Cited in R. A. Knox, Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1920), p. 159, and M. Baring, Have You Anything to Declare? (1936), p. 39 Oh Hell of ships and cities,  Hell of men like me,Fatal second Helen,  Why must I follow thee? "Achilles in the Trench", st. 4 Cp. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, chorus, ll. 689–90 Was it so hard, Achilles,  So very hard to die?Thou knowest and I know not —  So much the happier I. "Achilles in the Trench", st. 6 Stand in the trench, Achilles,  Flame-capped, and shout for me. "Achilles in the Trench", st. 7 External links Category:1888 births Category:1917 deaths Category:Poets from Wales Category:Deaths by war Category:University of Oxford alumni