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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war ...
William Harold Owen (5 September 1897 – 26 November 1971 [1]) was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen.He was born at the home of his paternal grandparents in Canon Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, where his parents and older siblings then lodged before his father moved on promotion to a station master's post at Birkenhead in 1898.
The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and the family seat of Renishaw Hall, were three siblings who formed an identifiable literary and artistic clique around themselves in London in the period roughly 1916 to 1930. This was marked by some well-publicised events, notably Edith's ...
Relatives. Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell (brothers) Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became ...
Jon Stallworthy. Jon Howie Stallworthy, FBA, FRSL (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) [1] was a British literary critic and poet. He was Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000, and Professor Emeritus in retirement. He was also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1986, where he was twice acting president.
Wilfred Owen. This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen. "1914" "A New Heaven" "A Terre" [1] [2] [3] "Anthem for Doomed Youth" "The Bending over of Clancy Year 12 on October 19th" "Arms and the Boy" "As Bronze may be much Beautified" "Asleep" "At a Calvary near the Ancre" "Beauty" "But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" "Conscious" "Cramped in ...
Wild with All Regrets. (Redirected from Wild With All Regrets) " Wild With All Regrets " is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I . Owen wrote the poem in December 1917, while stationed at Scarborough, and sent it to his friend Siegfried Sassoon. [1] The original manuscript shows a dedication to Sassoon ...
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. And half the seed of Europe, one by one. " The Parable of the Old Man and the Young " is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title ...