Wilfred owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by many as the leading poet of "the Great War". His work is shocking and realistic with its focus upon the horrors of trench warfare and gas attacks.

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. #WilfredOwen

Dulce et Decorum Est. Wilfred Owen.

Why does Wilfred Owen remain such a popular World War I poet when he died so young and published so very little?

Wilfred Owen, The Parable of the Old Men and the Young. 💞🌍🌎🌏💞 Reference: The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, edited by Michael Schmidt, The Harvill Press, London, 1999.

Wilfred Owen, by Guy Cuthbertson, Yale University Press, RRP£25/$40, 352 pages

Suddenly night crushed out the day and hurled Her remnants over cloud-peaks, thunder-walled. Then fell a stillness such as harks appalled When far-gone dead return upon the world. There watched I for the Dead; but no ghost woke. Each one whom Life exiled I named and called. But they were all too far, or dumbed, or thralled; And never one fared back to me or spoke. Then peered the indefinite unshapen dawn With vacant gloaming, sad as half-lit minds, The weak-limned hour when sick men’s sighs…