EAN: 9780241303115

POEMS - WILFRED OWEN LEINEN

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War. Brought up in
Birkenhead and Shrewsbury  Owen worked as a lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden before
teaching in France the year before the war broke out. In 1915 he enlisted in the Artists Rifles
and was wounded in combat in 1917. Recovering from concussion and shell shock in an Edinburgh
hospital  Owen met another patient  the poet Siegfried Sassoon  who became his mentor. At this
time Owen wrote many of his greatest poems including 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'. In June 1918
Owen returned to France and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. He was killed on 4th
November 1918  one week before Armistice Day.

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