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  2. Wilfred Owen - Wikipedia

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    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war ...

  3. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wikipedia

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    Written between September and October 1917, when Owen was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh recovering from shell shock, the poem is a lament for young soldiers who died in the European War. The poem is also a comment on Owen's rejection of his religion in 1915 [citation needed].

  4. With an Identity Disc - Wikipedia

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    On the night of 14/15 of March 1917, Owen received a concussion after a fall at Le Quesnoy-en-Santerre. On the same night he was evacuated to a Military Hospital at Nesle. On the 17th of March, Owen was moved to 13th Casualty Clearing Station at Gailly. [3] While recovering, Owen sent a letter to his younger brother Colin,

  5. Wild with All Regrets - Wikipedia

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    Wild With All Regrets" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. Owen wrote the poem in December 1917, while stationed at Scarborough, and sent it to his friend Siegfried Sassoon. [1] The original manuscript shows a dedication to Sassoon, accompanied by the question "May I?". Owen later expanded the poem into "A ...

  6. Poems (Wilfred Owen) - Wikipedia

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    Owen's reputation as a war poet was quickly established immediately after the end of the war. A further 19 poems were added in an expanded second edition, The Poems of Wilfred Owen published by Edmund Blunden in 1931, and the total reached 80 (together with other fragments) in the collected poems published by Cecil Day Lewis in 1963.

  7. The Dead-Beat - Wikipedia

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    Owen developed the poem while he was a patient at Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers suffering with mental illness. [1] It was here that he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon and where his personal psychological healing from the traumas of war. "The Dead-Beat" marked the beginning of his writings as representations of soldiers who could no ...

  8. A death row inmate's letters: Read vulnerable, angry thoughts ...

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    As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...

  9. Dulce et Decorum est - Wikipedia

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    Whilst receiving treatment at the hospital, Owen became the editor of the hospital magazine, The Hydra, and met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was to have a major impact upon his life and work and to play a crucial role in the dissemination of Owen’s poetry following his untimely death in 1918, aged 25. Owen wrote a number of his most famous ...