The futility of war has been a consistent theme ... More than a hundred years ago, amid the smoke and mud of Flanders, Wilfred Owen and his fellow soldier-poets began turning the tide of public ...

A grade II-listed property in Shropshire which was the birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has been placed on the market by Savills. Plas Wilmot, which has a guide price of £975,000, is noted in ...

It’s hard to think of a poet more decisively transformed by meeting another poet than Wilfred Owen ... and in June 1918 ‘Futility’ and ‘Hospital Barge’ appeared in the Nation. While literary London ...

It interweaves the traditional Latin text of the Requiem Mass with the anti-war poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen, who was killed ... especially that poem, Futility, had a deep impact on me.

Sassoon’s friend Wilfred Owen was drawn “to prove to himself ... The poem, Korda writes, “came to symbolize the futility and cruelty of warfare and the hope that humanity might pursue ...

Artists and writers throughout the ages have depicted the horrors of war in graphic detail in their work. From Wilfred Owen’s poems about World War I to Picasso’s painting Guernica on the Spanish ...

Born on March 18, in 1893, Wilfred Owen (d. 1918) has become one of the famous casualties ... Owen published only five poems in his lifetime, with today’s Poem of the Day, “Futility,” one of them. In ...

My first encounter with Wilfred Owen’s poetry was – as it is for many – at school ... First World War – the journey from innocence to experience; the ultimate futility of war; the wilful ignorance of ...

At Hamilton Square, the pair visited a new sculpture to mark the 100th anniversary of Wilfred Owen’s death ... the Birkenhead war poet’s poems, ‘Futility’, is cast in bronze and represents ...