Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) was an English poet and soldier whose unsparing poems of the Western Front made him the best-known poet of the First World War. Only a handful of his poems were published in his lifetime.

He served with the Manchester Regiment, was treated for shell-shock at Craiglockhart, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, and returned to the front in 1918. He won the Military Cross and was killed on 4 November 1918, a week before the Armistice. His Poems, edited by Sassoon, appeared in 1920.