Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) Dulce et Decorum Est LINKS Wilfred Owen http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Owen2.html This site contains a brief biography of Owen and the texts of several of his poems which are accompanied by recordings of the poems and interesting images from the World War I period. BIOGRAPHY Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) Born in the Shropshire countryside of England, Owen had begun writing verse before he matriculated at London University, where he was known as a quiet and contemplative student. After some years of teaching English in France, Owen returned to England and joined the army. He was wounded in 1917 and killed in action leading an attack a few days before the armistice was declared in 1918. Owen's poems, published only after his death, along with his letters from the front to his mother, are perhaps the most powerful and vivid accounts of the horror of war to emerge from the First World War.