War poet Wilfred Owen's first steps in Edinburgh have been re-enacted to mark 100 years to the day since he arrived in the city, which had a huge impact on his poetry. Owen arrived from London by ...

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 ...

Some of Owen's poetry, which explored the brutal reality of war, was also recited and his final letter home was read out. Fiona MacDonald from the Wilfred Owen Association described the service as ...

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 (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 Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After his school days he took a four-year course as a pupil-teacher. Then in 1913, ...

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 returned to the frontline following his spell in Craiglockhart and was killed on 4 November 1918, just a week before Armistice was declared. Sassoon would also return to the front.

War poet Wilfred Owen's first steps in Edinburgh have been re-enacted to mark 100 years to the day since he arrived in the city, which had a huge impact on his poetry. Owen arrived from London by ...

Some of Owen's poetry, which explored the brutal reality of war, was also recited and his final letter home was read out. Fiona MacDonald from the Wilfred Owen Association described the service as ...