Soldier and poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action in November 1918, just a week before the Armistice. We look at how his moving poetry was part of his legacy.

Little about young Wilfred Owen hinted at the soldier-poet he would become. Cuthbertson tells us that, growing up, Owen was very much a “mama’s boy” and not a particularly inspired student.

Wilfred Owen, the great British war poet, died a century ago this weekend.. The second lieutenant was killed in action as he led a raiding party across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France on ...

Wilfred Owen’s grave at Ors Cemetery in France. Hektor via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND. These poetic phantoms, spectres, ghosts were not shaped by the fighting alone; more than the trenches, it ...

Wilfred Owen was a far more controversial character than the heroic figure of popular imagination, ... Dark secret of a doomed youth: Warrior poet Wilfred Owen died a hero in the trenches.

Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager.

An illuminating study of Wilfred Owen’s poems leaves their creator in shadow. By Nigel Jones 27 March 2014 • 5:00pm . Peter Pan figure: Wilfred Owen photographed in uniform in 1916 Credit ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Futility’ Wilfred Owen’s poems constitute the output of a brief adulthood entirely consumed by the consciousness of war, in a generation of men who would be utterly devoured, as a ...

A new First World War attraction, honouring the life and work of poet Wilfred Owen, has opened near where he was killed the week before the war ended in November 1918.