“I myself did not want to sleep because I had been living for a long time with the knowledge that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my soul would go out of my body. I had … ...

Editor's Note: In observance of Veterans Day, PennLive will annually reprint "Dulce et Decorum Est," by the English poet Wilfred Owen. It's still the single, strongest reminder of the folly of war ...

Wilfred Owen's most famous piece “Dulce et decorum est” was originally drafted in October 1917 while he lay recovering from shellshock at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.

Dulce et Decorum Est. Episode 22 | 5m 18s. A reading of Wilfred Owen's poem. The poem is offered as a grandfather's flashback, triggered by a radio broadcast of military action in Vietnam, June of ...

Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's?

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. 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.

Owen was commissioned as an officer aged 22 in 1915 and wrote Dulce et Decorum Est in 1917, the year before he was killed on the battlefield. Its title is part a Latin phrase.

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. “I just think that the horrors of war are still with us 100 years after this was written and it makes me incredibly sad,” Friend said.

Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est while recuperating in Edinburgh War poet Wilfred Owen's first steps in Edinburgh have been re-enacted to mark 100 years to the day since he arrived in the ...

Wilfred Owen, the great British war poet, died a century ago this weekend.. The second lieutenant was killed in action as he led a raiding party across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France on ...

War poet Wilfred Owen's first steps in Edinburgh have been re-enacted to mark 100 years to the day since he arrived in the city, ... Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem For Doomed Youth.