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The story of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meeting in ... he was sent back to the front barely weeks before the war’s conclusion; his mother received a telegram notifying her of his death ...

"SHREWSBURY OFFICER KILLED – Sec. Lieut. Wilfred E. S. Owen, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs T. Owen, Mahim, Monkmoor Road, attached to 2nd Batt. Manchester Regt., was killed in action on November 4th ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated British poet of World War One. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) had published only a handful of poems when he was killed a week before the end of ...

On 11 November 1918, as news of the end of World War One spread across the world, the parents of Wilfred Owen received notice ... in a newspaper three months before the end of the war.

While the most memorable war poem in the literal sense must be ... In its place, came the visceral rage of poems like Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”, which described marching in ...

I would like to submit for consideration a different poem as a more suitable and ultimately more resonant poem to guide our reflections this Remembrance Day: Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum ...

Almost a century after he was killed in the final week of the First World War, the poet Wilfred ... be said about Owen,” he writes. After two major biographies of the poet’s life, by the ...

On 11 November 1918, as news of the end of World War One spread across the world, the parents of Wilfred Owen received notice ... in a newspaper three months before the end of the war.

In Regeneration, the first in her trilogy of novels about the first world war, Pat Barker enthrallingly recreates the period in summer 1917 when Wilfred ... story of Owen’s short life and ...