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“Catalogue? Photograph? Can you photograph the crimson-hot iron as it cools from the smelting? That is what Jones's blood looked like, and felt like. My senses are charred.”

Questioning whether ordinary forms of representation could communicate traumatic experience · Letter to Siegfried Sassoon, 10 October 1918

About Wilfred Owen

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…

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