Wilfred Owen, 88, a globally minded transportation and development expert who was director of the Brookings Institution's transport research program when he retired in 1978 after a 32-year career ...

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) had published only a handful of poems when he was killed a week before the end of the war, but in later decades he became seen as the essential British war poet.

Wilfred Owen loved the English language and started writing his own poems when he was 17. When war broke out, Wilfred was working as a teacher in France.

Wilfred Owen’s poems constitute the output of a brief adulthood entirely consumed by the consciousness of war, in a generation of men who would be utterly devoured, as a demographic, by that war. John ...

THE POEM WE ALL REMEMBER Narrated by Ian McMillan Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;But someone ...

Wilfred Owen was killed in France just one week before Armistice Day in 1918. While researching, he found Owen's pairing with his psychiatrist encouraged him to write poetry and proved crucial to ...

Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager. He worked as an assistant to a ...

Wilfred Owen was a famous poet who fought during World War One. Find out more in this Bitesize Primary KS2 History guide.