Wilfred Owen, the great British war poet, died a century ago this weekend ... state of “drowsy numbness” Keats articulates in “Ode on a Nightingale” (1819).

Whisked off to a hospital for the mentally frail in Scotland, he befriended the fellow poet and soldier Wilfred Owen, who was sent back to the front and killed a week before the war ended.

In its place, came the visceral rage of poems like Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”, which described marching in a row of broken down “blood-shod” soldiers and watching the ...

The poetic reputation of Lieutenant Wilfred Owen of the Manchester ... from a small body of no more than 40 ‘war poems’ written by Owen. One hundred years later, his lines are still compelling ...

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Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager. He worked as an assistant to a ...

Peter Daborn said it was a "poignant" time to market the house in Oswestry The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone on the market. Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in ...