Colonial Wargames - Poetry - Sir Henry Newbolt and others

The poetry of Sir Henry Newbolt and others

Sir Henry Newbolt

Sir Henry Newbolt was neither as prolific a writer as William McGonagall nor quite as well known as Rudyard Kipling, but he did write one poem that encapsulated the attitude of Victorian and Edwardian Middle and Upper Classes - Vitai Lampada.

Vitai Lampada	The Gay Gordons
The Guides at Cabul, 1879	A ballad of John Nicholson

Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc wrote one very significant poem that summed up the technological superiority that the imperialists had over the native peoples they conquered - The Modern Traveller.

The Modern Traveller