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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In autumn 1917 Wilfred Owen was treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh, where his doctor ...