Anthem for Doomed Youth
Source: The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen (1984)
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Poet Wilfred Owen 1893–1918
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Georgian
Subjects War & Conflict, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Social Commentaries, Death
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Biography
Wilfred Owen, who wrote some of the best British poetry on World War I, composed nearly all of his poems in slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. In November 1918 he was killed in action at the age of twenty-five, one week before the Armistice. Only five poems were published in his lifetime—three in the Nation and two that appeared anonymously in the Hydra, a journal he edited in 1917 when he was a patient at . . .
Poems by Wilfred Owen
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SUBJECT War & Conflict, Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Social Commentaries, Death
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Georgian
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