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"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young ...
Below, you'll find the full text of "Dulce et Decorum Est," a poem written by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier, who served on the battlefields of France. In an extraordinary burst of artistic ...
Every Veterans Day, PennLive republishes "Dulce et Decorum Est," by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier and poet who wrote one of the most enduring poems of the World War I era. It is thought to have ...
For one thing, Rupert Brooke’s poetry–which was in the dulce et decorum est pro patria mori line–remained enormously popular into the 1930s while Owen was a minority taste. Robert Graves was ...
The apparently imminent war against Iraq has already claimed one casualty: a White House celebration of "Poetry and the American Voice." The event, which was to be hosted by first lady Laura Bush ...
A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem, offered as a grandfather's flashback. A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem. The poem is offered as a grandfather's flashback, triggered by a radio broadcast of ...
One of his poems took as its title the first part of a line from Horace: “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori.” (“It is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.”) But Owen’s ...