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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 been written ...
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 ...
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Since I first read Dulce et Decorum Est at school, I’ve found Owen’s ... This was a minority view but expressed through powerful and well-written poetry. In the 1960s a literary elite decided ...
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 ...