Wilfrid Owen enlisted in the British Army in 1915. He returned to England in 1917 because of shellshock. Owen started writing poetry about the war when he was in hospital. His poems are now famous ...

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 ...