Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With ...

Wilfred Owen’s poetry challenged the public perception of war and the lofty patriotic verses of the early 20th century.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Wilfred Owen was a poet who wrote about the horrors of war from his experience serving in the British Army during ...