“Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
About Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on 18 March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, a house near Oswestry in Shropshire, on the borderland between England and Wales. He was the eldest of four children of Thomas Owen and Susan Shaw Owen; his siblings were Mary, Harold, and Colin. The family’s circumstances were respectable but…