“I have not seen any dead. I have done worse. In the dank air I have perceived it, and in the darkness, felt.”
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…