Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen is considered one of the greatest English poets of the 20th century, and certainly the most memorable and vibrant voice of the calamitous First World War. He is often compared to John Keats, and critics speculate that if he had lived longer than his twenty-five years, he would have gone on to act as a bulwark of great traditional English poetry in the face of Modernism.
On March 18th, 1893, Owen was born to an Anglican family in Shropshire. He was interested in poetry at a very...
