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Wilfred Owen
 
Date of birth: 18 March 1893
Date of death: 04 November 1918
Country Of Origin: England
Profession:

Poet

Biography:
   Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. He was killed in action just days before the war ended. His work was not published until some years after his death.

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Owen was born the eldest of four children at Plas Wilmot, a house near Oswestry in Shropshir .... (More...)
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" A calmer time has come for me; fifty blandishments cannot move me like 10 notes of a violin or a line of Keats. "

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" A dream of fair women... if not for such gentle ladies, what on earth is the Fighting about? "

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" A four-legged chair! The Roof is waterproof! There is a stove! "

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" A gentle girl of 5, fast sinking under Consumption, is going to a hospital and may be beyond the reach of doctors. "

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" A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. "

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" A Poet, by his economy in Barber's Bills-and by his frequent glances at the rising moon. "

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" A pompous old Rajah of an Examiner came glaring at us from over a barred gate on the staircase. "

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" A poor youth, by his clothes; yet a rich one by his hands. "

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" After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. "

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" All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. "

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" All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. "

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" Am I for or against upheaval? I know not; I am not happy in these thoughts. "

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" Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. "

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" An imposing Funeral Service was being held in an old Church. The gloom, the incense, the draperies, she shine of many candles were what I had never seen or heard before. "

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" An Oxford man of a very decided and one-sided religious belief who held his pedigree very proudly indeed sat beside me. "

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