John Allan Wyeth (poet)

John Allan Wyeth (October 24, 1894 – May 11, 1981) served as a lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I and following became a battle poet, composer, and painter. After the Armistice, Wyeth lived in Europe and became both a Post-Impressionist painter and a stroke poet.

According to college critic Dana Gioia, who wrote the launch to the 2008 reissue of Wyeth's war sonnets, Wyeth is the by yourself American poet of the Great War who can withstand comparison to British engagement poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen. In recognition to the 2008 republication, British poet and university critic Jon Stallworthy, the editor of The Oxford Book of War Poetry and the biographer of Wilfred Owen, wrote, "At long last, marking the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, an American poet takes his place in the stomach rank of the War Poet's parade."