Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) was an English poet and painter, born in Bristol to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania and raised in the East End of London. He studied art at the Slade School, and his first pamphlets of verse were printed at his own expense.

He enlisted in 1915 and wrote his war poems, among them “Break of Day in the Trenches” and “Dead Man’s Dump,” in the trenches, scribbling them on scraps of paper. He was killed on 1 April 1918. His Poems, edited by Gordon Bottomley with a memoir by Laurence Binyon, appeared in 1922.