“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.

This Saturday, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, the nation will pause to observe Veterans Day. Because PennLive/The Patriot-News will not publish a print edition on Saturday, we ...

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?

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.

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 returned to the frontline following his spell in Craiglockhart and was killed on 4 November 1918, just a week before Armistice was declared. Sassoon would also return to the front.

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 ...