biography
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Owen, Wilfred (Edward Salter)
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| (1893–1918)
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| biography:
| Poet, born at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry, Shropshire, WC England, UK. He studied at the Birkenhead Institute and at Shrewsbury Technical School, left England to teach English in Bordeaux (1913), and began to write. Wounded in World War 1, he was sent to recuperate near Edinburgh, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who encouraged his poetry writing. One of the most important poets of World War 1, his poems, expressing a horror of the cruelty and waste of war, were first collected in 1920 by Sassoon and reappeared in 1931 with a memoir by Edmund Blunden. Several were set to music by Britten in his War Requiem (1962). The Collected Poems, edited by C Day Lewis, were published in 1963. He was killed in action on the Western Front on his return to France, a week before the armistice. |
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