Britain Discovers World War II Poet at Age 91

One final note from the Veteran's Day news cycle—Britain discovers the Wilfred Owen of WWII. From the Huffington Post:

During his service in the trenches on the Western Front after the Normandy invasion, Dennis Wilson would scribble poems in his Field Service Pocket Book. Almost seven decades later -- thanks to a chance discovery by a scholar researching Wilson's father (who served as a spy) -- that poetry has finally been published.

The Daily Mail details how Tim Crook, a lecturer at the University of London, came upon Wilson's poems, and was so impressed that he offered him a book deal. Now, Elegy of a Common Soldier, according to its publisher, Kultura Press, is selling well, and Wilson, who is 91 years old, is being compared to famed World War I poet Wilfred Owen.

Unlike Owen, Wilson fortunately survived the war. "[Wilson] told The Daily Mail about the day he was wounded by a German shell: 'I was in agony and initially thought I was going to lose my arm. But I later realized I had been lucky and it was one of the happiest days of my life because it proved to be my ticket out of there.'"

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