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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 ...
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 ...
Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving poem Dulce et Decorum Est. The poem describes ... to questions of poetic form. Chair of examiners at OCR, Andrew ...
Every year, on Veterans Day, I'd run "Dulce et Decorum Est," the harrowing poem of World War I trench warfare by the English poet Wilfrid Owen. To me, there is no more clear a statement on the ...
And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Wilfred Owen's most famous piece “Dulce et decorum est” was originally drafted in October 1917 while he lay recovering from shellshock at ...
The Last Post exhibition focuses on communication between the front line and the home front An original manuscript by Wilfred Owen of the World War One poem Dulce et Decorum Est is on display at ...