For many people, most of what they know about the futility, sacrifice and tragedy of World War I, they learned through reading the poetry of Wilfred Owen. But what they may not be aware of is how ...

Wilfred Owen didn’t write about glory — he wrote about gas, mud, and broken bodies. His poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” stripped away the romantic myth of noble sacrifice. In this video, we explore Owen’s ...

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...

Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on an unusual exhibition in Great Britain that looks back at the poetry written by soldiers in World War I. "My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry ...

THESE two books of modern English poetry, real poetry, provoke some observations on metrical forms. Wilfred Owen—a poet of this single volume, killed in battle just a week before the Armistice, when ...

Dashing, talented poet Wilfred Owen was only 25 when he was killed in World War I, a British war hero awarded the Military Cross who left behind poems that gave us the foot soldier’s gritty, bloody, ...

WILFRED OWEN! This is a name that has gathered a continual accretion of fire. It glows. It lives clothed in flame. ... On the day when at last the news came that the Second World War was over, under ...