War Poems of Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England, and is regarded as the greatest poet of the First World War. Commissioned as an officer in the British Army, he suffered shell shock and was treated at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who encouraged and shaped his verse. His poems — including Dulce et Decorum Est, Strange Meeting, and Anthem for Doomed Youth — confront the horror of trench warfare with stark imagery and technical mastery. Only five of his poems were published during his lifetime. He was killed in action one week before the Armistice. His Collected Poems were edited posthumously by Sassoon in 1920.