Wilfred Owen

A community portal about Wilfred Owen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier, regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking... [more]

A community portal about Wilfred Owen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier, regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works - most of which remained unpublished until after his death - include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially'War, and the pity of War', and'the Poetry is in the pity'.