Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Owen is considered one of the greatest war poets, thanks in part to his moving poem Dulce et Decorum Est. The poem describes a gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense of horror and ...

The British Library has draft manuscripts of some of Owen's other poems. In Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen describes a gas attack and the moment when the soldier who has inhaled the gas and is dying ...