Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)

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Wilfred Owen was born near Oswestry, Shropshire, where his father worked on the railway. He was educated at the Birkenhead Institute, Liverpool and Shrewsbury Technical College. He worked as a pupil-teacher in a poor country parish before a shortage of money forced him to drop his hopes of studying at the University of London and take up a teaching post in Bordeaux (1913). He was tutoring in the Pyrenees when war was declared and enlisted as shortly afterwards. In 1917 he suffered severe con.. Continue..

Some of Wilfred Owen Poems

Dulce Et Decorum Est

Anthem For Doomed Youth

The Send-Off

Disabled

Strange Meeting

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	My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

- Wilfred Owen

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