Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. poetry
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. poetry & war
Wilfred Owen Poet
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born: Mar 18, 1893
- Died: Nov 4, 1918
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting".