While the most memorable war poem in the literal ... epic tradition of using poetry to glorify warfare. In its place, came the visceral rage of poems like Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum ...

In his poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” World War I poet and British infantry officer Wilfred Owen ponders the slaughter ... that airs tonight at 8, “The Christmas Truce” tells of an ...

They are some of the most poignant poems ever written, an emotional evocation of the First World War by Wilfred Owen, who died in one of its final battles. Some, such as "Anthem for Doomed Youth ...

reads a selection of poems from the First World War: A.E. Housman's "Grenadier" and "Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"; Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"; and John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields." ...

Another excellent new First World War attraction, honouring the life and work of poet Wilfred ... poem The End: 'Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth/ All death will he annul.' Actually, what ...

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 ...

For many people, most of what they know about the futility, sacrifice and tragedy of World War I, they learned through reading the poetry of Wilfred Owen. But what they may not be aware of is how ...

The winner of the first Wilfred Owen international poetry competition ... centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, where the winning poems will be read by their authors.