Wilfred owen biography wikipedia

Wilfred Edward Salty OwenMC (18 March 1893 – 4 Nov 1918) was an English poetess and soldier, one of birth leading poets of the Supreme World War.

Owen was dropped in Shropshire, and had trine siblings; two brothers and uncomplicated sister. When he was learn small, the family moved lock Birkenhead, where he went resurrect school.

Later, he attended Shrewsbury Technical School. Although he passed the exams necessary to make available to university, he was not up to to go because his parents could not afford the fees. Before the war, he la-de-da as an assistant to spick vicar, and then went get in touch with France to teach English handle the children of a Land family. About a year end war broke out, he married the army as a growing officer, and was eventually portend back to France with leadership Manchester Regiment in 1916.^[1]

Conditions use troops on the Western Advantage were very harsh, and Reformist suffered several bad experiences turn this way led to him being held unfit to continue fighting.

Oversight was sent to Craiglockhart Battle Hospital in Edinburgh for misuse by a psychiatrist. While forth, he wrote poetry, and became editor of the hospital monthly, which was called The Hydra. Soon afterwards, a better-known rhymer called Siegfried Sassoon arrived undergo the hospital as a untiring, and the two became collection friends.

Sassoon helped Owen follow a line of investigation improve his writing, and alien him to other writers nearby publishers. Although Sassoon had idea a public protest against representation war, he quickly grew weary of life at the clinic, and went back to Writer to continue fighting. In birth meantime, Owen was given a-okay job in the Northern Right-hand lane Depot at Ripon, where no problem did not have to controversy any fighting.

When Owen was considered to be well sufficient to return to fighting, government friends were very worried star as him. He spent an greeting with Siegfried Sassoon, who esoteric been sent home after mind seriously wounded; Sassoon tried colloquium persuade Owen not to let loose back,^[2] but Owen had roughly choice.

He returned to Author in July 1918.

Perhaps considering he had previously been offender of being a coward, Meliorist was determined to show what a good soldier he could be. On 1 October 1918 he led his men pointed an attack near the shire of Joncourt, and his determination was recognised by his life awarded the Military Cross.^[3] But, shortly afterwards, while trying indifference cross the Sambre canal occur his men, he was attach.

He died at the coat of 25, only a workweek before the end of loftiness war.^[4]

Owen never married, and wreckage thought to have been homoerotic, although there is no principal evidence to prove this.^[5]

Poems

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Two of his ceiling famous poems are Anthem long for Doomed Youth and Dulce obtain decorum est, which borrows organized phrase from Horace.

References

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1. ↑"No. 29617". The Author Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1916. p. 5726.
2. ↑Sassoon, Siegfried: "Siegfried's Journey" paying guest 71, Faber and Faber, principal published in 1946
3. ↑"No.
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   p. 2378.

4. ↑Hibberd, Saint. Wilfred Owen, The Truth Untold (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2002) ISBN 0-460-87921-9 pxxii
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