Wilfred Owen
'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.'
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was born to Thomas and Susan Owen on the 18th of March 1893 near Oswestry, Shropshire. Upon the death of Owens's grandfather in 1897, the Owen family were forced to move from the house he had owned in Oswestry to lodgings in Birkenhead (1898), Merseyside, and it was in the Birkenhead Institute that Owen's education began. In 1907, when Thomas Owen was appointed Assistant Superintendent for the Western Region of the railways, the family moved to Shrewsbury where Owen's education continued at the Shrewsbury Borough Technical School. Upon leaving school at 18, Owen spent a period of months working as a pupil-teacher at Wyle Cop School. In the autumn he passed the matriculation examination for the University of London but without the first class honours needed to gain a scholarship. Unable to afford to study, he worked as lay assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden near Reading. In his spare time he also attended University College, Reading, and is known to have studied the diverse subjects of botany and poetry. Between 1913 and 1915 Owen travelled to Bordeaux,…
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| 31 | Wilfred Owen - biography | 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.' Wilfred Edward… | Stuart Lee, Stephanie Fishwick |
| 32 | First World War timeline (interactive) | This interactive timeline, created as part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive… | |
| 33 | Under a green sea – experiences of gas warfare (3D simulation) | This 3D simulation introduces you to the experiences of gas warfare in the trenches through… | |
| 34 | Beyond the slaughter and loss of the First World War (conversation) | Was there more to the First World War than just death and slaughter? This is a transcript of an… | |
| 35 | First World War | The Great War (also known as World War One, and the First World War) was a global combat centred in… | Charlotte Barrett |
| 36 | The Art of Mourning in First World War Poetry | Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'Wilfred Owen's presentation of mourning is far… |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 37 | World War I Poetry in England (lecture) | Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry'.… | Langdon Hammer |
| 38 | The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture) | Free public lecture at Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript … |
Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff |
| 39 | Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen - Muvizu 3D Animation war poem | ||
| 40 | Wilfred Owen plate from Poems (1920) | This is a plate from Wilfred Owen's 1920 Poems by Wilfred Owen, showing the author. The original… |