Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (1893-1991 – 1918) was an English poet and soldier.
He was one of the leading writers of the First World War.
His war poetry on trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and he stood in stark contrast to the widespread conception of war at the time and the more resolutely patriotic verse written by older war poets, such as Rupert Brooke.
"Dulce et Decorum est," "Insensibility," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Futility," "Spring Offensive," and "Strange Meeting" are among his best-known works, the majority of which were published posthumously.
Early life
Owen was born in Plas Wilmot, a house in Weston Lane, Shropshire's east coast, on March 1893. He was the eldest of Thomas and (Harriett) Susan Owen (née Shaw)'s four children; Mary Millard, (William) Harold, and Colin Shaw Owen were among his siblings. Wilfred was born in a wealthy house owned by his grandfather, Edward Shaw.
The family was lodged in the back streets of Birkenhead following Edward's death in January 1897 and the house's auction in March. Thomas Owen was employed by a railway company in the town for a brief period of time. Thomas Thomas came from Shrewsbury, England, where the family lived with Thomas' parents in Canon Street.
When Thomas Owen became stationmaster at Woodside station in 1898, he returned to Birkenhead. In the town's Tranmere district district, the family lived with him at three separate homes. In 1907, they returned to Shrewsbury. Wilfred Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute and Shrewsbury Technical School (later known as the Wakeman School).
During a holiday spent in Cheshire in 1904, Owen discovered his poetic career. He was raised as an Anglican of the evangelical type and in his youth, he was a devout believer thanks in large part to his close friendship with his mother, which continued throughout his life. The Bible and Romantic poets, as well as Wordsworth and John Keats, were among his early influences.
Owen's last two years of formal education saw him as a pupil tutor at Shrewsbury's Wyle Cop academy. He passed the University of London's first-class examination in 1911, but not with the first-class distinctions needed for a scholarship, the only way he could have afforded to attend.
Owen served as lay assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden, near Reading, from September 1911 to February 1913, earning free accommodation and some tuition for the entrance exam (this has been questioned). He took classes at University College, Reading (now the University of Reading), in botany, and later, at the behest of the English Department's, took free lessons in Old English. His time in Dunsden parish led him to disillusion with the Church, both in the event and the Church's inability to help those in need.
He served as a private tutor teaching English and French at the Berlitz School of Languages in Bordeaux, France, from 1913 to later with a family. Laurent Tailhade, the older French poet, with whom he later corresponded in French, was present there. Owen did not rush to enlist – and even considered joining the French army – but then returned to England.