Wilfred Owen's Baptism at Holy Trinity Church
Poet involved
What happened
Wilfred Owen is baptised at Holy Trinity Church in Oswestry, Shropshire, shortly after his birth at Plas Wilmot, the home of his maternal grandfather. The ceremony formally welcomes him into the Anglican faith, which would profoundly influence his early poetry.
Literary impact
Owen's evangelical Anglican upbringing saturated his early verse with biblical imagery and moral seriousness. The rhythms of the King James Bible and the cadences of the Book of Common Prayer would later resurface in his war poetry, lending a liturgical gravity to poems such as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and 'At a Calvary near the Ancre'.
Source: Wikipedia
